RHEL 4 / 5 : samba (RHSA-2012:0332)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 58111

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for samba.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0332 advisory.

- samba: Any Batched (AndX) request processing infinite recursion and heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2012-0870)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2012:0332.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf073fb3

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0332

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795509

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 58111

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0332.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2012

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0870

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

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, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:5.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_mission_critical:5.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/23/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0870

BID: 52103

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2012:0332