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RHEL 5 : samba (Unpatched Vulnerability)

high Nessus Plugin ID 199740

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat 5 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

 - cifs-utils: stack-based buffer overflow flaw in pam_cifscreds (CVE-2014-2830)

 - samba: symlink race permits opening files outside share directory (CVE-2017-2619)

 - mount.cifs in cifs-utils 2.6 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or directories via the file path in the second argument, which reveals their existence in an error message.
 (CVE-2012-1586)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Solution

The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation guidance.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 199740

File Name: redhat_unpatched_samba-rhel5.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-2830

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2619

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba3x, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2012

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 9/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1586, CVE-2014-2830, CVE-2015-5252, CVE-2016-2125, CVE-2016-2126, CVE-2017-12150, CVE-2017-12163, CVE-2017-15275, CVE-2017-2619, CVE-2019-3880, CVE-2020-1472