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RHEL 6 : samba (RHSA-2015:0254)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 81473

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated samba packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and 6.5 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

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.

An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in the Samba daemon (smbd). A malicious Samba client could send specially crafted netlogon packets that, when processed by smbd, could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running smbd (by default, the root user). (CVE-2015-0240)

For additional information about this flaw, see the Knowledgebase article at https://access.redhat.com/articles/1346913

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Richard van Eeden of Microsoft Vulnerability Research as the original reporter of this issue.

All Samba users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, the smb service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0254

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0240

https://access.redhat.com/articles/1346913

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 81473

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-0254.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2015

Updated: 2/5/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-swat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-domainjoin-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-krb5-locator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.5

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: 2/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0240

BID: 72711

RHSA: 2015:0254