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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS : samba vulnerabilities (USN-1226-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56389

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Dan Rosenberg discovered that Samba incorrectly handled changes to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1678)

Jan Lieskovsky discovered that Samba incorrectly filtered certain strings being added to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2011-2724)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that Samba incorrectly handled the mtab lock file. A local attacker could use this issue to create a stale lock file, possibly leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3585).

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 smbfs package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1226-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56389

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1226-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2011

Updated: 1/13/2020

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: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbfs, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1678, CVE-2011-2724, CVE-2011-3585

USN: 1226-1