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Samba < 4.15.12, 4.16.x < 4.16.7, and 4.17.x < 4.17.3 32-Bit Systems Buffer Overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 168018

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Synopsis

The remote Samba server is potentially affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability

Description

The version of Samba running on the remote host is prior to 4.15.12, 4.16.x prior to 4.16.7, or 4.17.x prior to 4.17.3.
It is, therefore, potentially affected by a buffer overflow condition in the bundled Kerberos libraries due to a miss calculation of bytes to allocate for a buffer. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted ticket containing Privilege Attribute Certificates, to cause a denial of service condition or read beyond the memory bounds.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Samba version 4.15.12, 4.16.7, 4.17.3 or later.

See Also

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-42898.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 168018

File Name: samba_cve_2022-42898.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/21/2022

Updated: 10/3/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42898

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:samba:samba

Required KB Items: SMB/NativeLanManager, SMB/samba

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42898

IAVA: 2022-A-0495-S