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SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Samba (SAT Patch Number 6211)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58943

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update of Samba fixes one security issue and several bugs.

The security fix is :

 - Ensure that users cannot hand out their own privileges to everyone, only administrators are allowed to do that.
 (CVE-2012-2111) The non-security bug fixes merged from upstream Samba are :

 - Fix default name resolve order. (docs-xml, bso#7564).

 - Fix a segfault in vfs_aio_fork. (s3-aio-fork, bso#8836).

 - Remove whitespace in example samba.ldif. (docs, bso#8789)

 - Move print_backend_init() behind init_system_info().
 (s3-smbd, bso#8845)

 - Prepend '/' to filename argument. (s3-docs, bso#8826)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 6211.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757576

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2111.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58943

File Name: suse_11_ldapsmb-120424.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2012

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libtdb1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libtevent0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libtalloc2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:samba-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libtdb1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libsmbclient0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:samba-client-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:samba-winbind-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:samba-krb-printing, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libsmbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libldb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libldb1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:ldapsmb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libtevent0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libwbclient0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:samba-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libtalloc2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2111

BID: 53307