Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : samba vulnerabilities (USN-460-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 28059

Synopsis

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

Description

Paul Griffith and Andrew Hogue discovered that Samba did not fully drop root privileges while translating SIDs. A remote authenticated user could issue SMB operations during a small window of opportunity and gain root privileges. (CVE-2007-2444)

Brian Schafer discovered that Samba did not handle NDR parsing correctly. A remote attacker could send specially crafted MS-RPC requests that could overwrite heap memory and execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2007-2446)

It was discovered that Samba did not correctly escape input parameters for external scripts defined in smb.conf. Remote authenticated users could send specially crafted MS-RPC requests and execute arbitrary shell commands. (CVE-2007-2447).

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/460-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 28059

File Name: ubuntu_USN-460-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 7.4

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-doc-pdf, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-smbpass, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2007

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

USN: 460-1