RHEL 6 : samba4 (RHSA-2013:0506)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 64757

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0506 advisory.

Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) or Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, which allows PC-compatible machines to share files, printers, and other information.

A flaw was found in the Samba suite's Perl-based DCE/RPC IDL (PIDL) compiler, used to generate code to handle RPC calls. This could result in code generated by the PIDL compiler to not sufficiently protect against buffer overflows. (CVE-2012-1182)

The samba4 packages have been upgraded to upstream version 4.0.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
In particular, improved interoperability with Active Directory (AD) domains. SSSD now uses the libndr-krb5pac library to parse the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) issued by an AD Key Distribution Center (KDC).

The Cross Realm Kerberos Trust functionality provided by Identity Management, which relies on the capabilities of the samba4 client library, is included as a Technology Preview. This functionality and server libraries, is included as a Technology Preview. This functionality uses the libndr-nbt library to prepare Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) messages.

Additionally, various improvements have been made to the Local Security Authority (LSA) and Net Logon services to allow verification of trust from a Windows system. Because the Cross Realm Kerberos Trust functionality is considered a Technology Preview, selected samba4 components are considered to be a Technology Preview. For more information on which Samba packages are considered a Technology Preview, refer to Table 5.1, Samba4 Package Support in the Release Notes, linked to from the References.
(BZ#766333, BZ#882188)

This update also fixes the following bug:

* Prior to this update, if the Active Directory (AD) server was rebooted, Winbind sometimes failed to reconnect when requested by wbinfo -n or wbinfo -s commands. Consequently, looking up users using the wbinfo tool failed. This update applies upstream patches to fix this problem and now looking up a Security Identifier (SID) for a username, or a username for a given SID, works as expected after a domain controller is rebooted.
(BZ#878564)

All users of samba4 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these issues and add these enhancements.

Warning: If you upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and you have Samba in use, you should make sure that you uninstall the package named samba4 to avoid conflicts during the upgrade.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 64757

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0506.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/21/2013

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1182

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-dc-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-winbind-clients, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-swat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-winbind-krb5-locator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-dc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-pidl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-winbind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba4-common

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: 2/21/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2012

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Samba SetInformationPolicy AuditEventsInfo Heap Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1182

BID: 52973

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2013:0506

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