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RHEL 4 / 5 : samba (RHSA-2011:1219)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55999

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for samba.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1219 advisory.

 - samba: mount.cifs improper device name and mountpoint strings sanitization (CVE-2010-0547)

 - samba: Race condition by mount (mount.cifs) operations (CVE-2010-0787)

 - samba/cifs-utils: mount.cifs and umount.cifs fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (CVE-2011-1678)

 - samba (SWAT): Absent CSRF protection in various Samba web configuration formulars (CVE-2011-2522)

 - samba (SWAT): XSS flaw in Change Password page (CVE-2011-2694)

 - Samba mtab lock file race condition (CVE-2011-3585)

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 RHEL samba package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1219.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0f4c59a0

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562156

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577277

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695925

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721348

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722537

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1219

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55999

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1219.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2011

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2522

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3585

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-swat, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0547, CVE-2010-0787, CVE-2011-1678, CVE-2011-2522, CVE-2011-2694, CVE-2011-3585

BID: 37992

CWE: 352, 79

RHSA: 2011:1219