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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Samba vulnerabilities (USN-6238-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178487

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6238-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled Winbind NTLM authentication responses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2127)

 Andreas Schneider discovered that Samba incorrectly enforced SMB2 packet signing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain or modify sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04.
 (CVE-2023-3347)

 Florent Saudel and Arnaud Gatignolof discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain Spotlight requests.
 A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-34966, CVE-2023-34967)

 Ralph Boehme and Stefan Metzmacher discovered that Samba incorrectly handled paths returned by Spotlight requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
 (CVE-2023-34968)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6238-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178487

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6238-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3347

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-ad-provision, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dsdb-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:registry-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ldb-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-ad-dc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-ldb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-ldb-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldb2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldb-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-vfs-modules

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2127, CVE-2023-3347, CVE-2023-34966, CVE-2023-34967, CVE-2023-34968

IAVA: 2023-A-0376-S

USN: 6238-1