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Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : samba vulnerabilities (USN-419-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 28011

Synopsis

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

Description

A flaw was discovered in Samba's file opening code, which in certain situations could lead to an endless loop, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2007-0452)

A format string overflow was discovered in Samba's ACL handling on AFS shares. Remote users with access to an AFS share could create crafted filenames and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
(CVE-2007-0454).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/419-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 28011

File Name: ubuntu_USN-419-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-smbpass, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-doc-pdf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:winbind, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0452, CVE-2007-0454

USN: 419-1