CentOS 5 : samba3x (CESA-2011:1220)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56272

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated samba3x packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the password change page of the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT). If a remote attacker could trick a user, who was logged into the SWAT interface, into visiting a specially crafted URL, it would lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of the user's SWAT session.
(CVE-2011-2694)

It was found that SWAT web pages did not protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. If a remote attacker could trick a user, who was logged into the SWAT interface, into visiting a specially crafted URL, the attacker could perform Samba configuration changes with the privileges of the logged in user. (CVE-2011-2522)

It was found that the fix for CVE-2010-0547, provided by the Samba rebase in RHBA-2011:0054, was incomplete. The mount.cifs tool did not properly handle share or directory names containing a newline character, allowing a local attacker to corrupt the mtab (mounted file systems table) file via a specially crafted CIFS (Common Internet File System) share mount request, if mount.cifs had the setuid bit set.
(CVE-2011-2724)

It was found that the mount.cifs tool did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab file. If mount.cifs had the setuid bit set, a local attacker could corrupt the mtab file by setting a small file size limit before running mount.cifs. (CVE-2011-1678)

Note: mount.cifs from the samba3x packages distributed by Red Hat does not have the setuid bit set. We recommend that administrators do not manually set the setuid bit for mount.cifs.

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting CVE-2011-2694 and CVE-2011-2522, and Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2011-1678. Upstream acknowledges Nobuhiro Tsuji of NTT DATA Security Corporation as the original reporter of CVE-2011-2694, and Yoshihiro Ishikawa of LAC Co., Ltd. as the original reporter of CVE-2011-2522.

Users of Samba are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing this update, the smb service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected samba3x packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56272

File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-1220.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 9/23/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:samba3x-winbind-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:samba3x-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:samba3x-winbind, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:samba3x, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:samba3x-swat, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:samba3x-common, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:samba3x-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:samba3x-domainjoin-gui

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0547, CVE-2011-1678, CVE-2011-2522, CVE-2011-2694, CVE-2011-2724

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2011:1220

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