GLSA-200705-15 : Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 25236

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200705-15 (Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities)

Samba contains a logical error in the smbd daemon when translating local SID to user names (CVE-2007-2444). Furthermore, Samba contains several bugs when parsing NDR encoded RPC parameters (CVE-2007-2446).
Lastly, Samba fails to properly sanitize remote procedure input provided via Microsoft Remote Procedure Calls (CVE-2007-2447).
Impact :

A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to gain root privileges via various vectors.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Samba users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-fs/samba-3.0.24-r2'

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 25236

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200705-15.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 5/16/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:samba, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2007

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Samba "username map script" Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2444, CVE-2007-2446, CVE-2007-2447

GLSA: 200705-15

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