SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2015:0353-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83687

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

samba was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

- CVE-2015-0240: Don't call talloc_free on an uninitialized pointer (bnc#917376).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-91=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-91=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-91=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872912

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873922

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876312

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889175

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=898031

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908627

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913238

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917376

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0240/

http://www.nessus.org/u?e3122dc9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83687

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0353-1.nasl

Version: 2.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtevent-util0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-credentials0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libregistry0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient-raw0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtevent-util0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnetapi0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc-binding0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libregistry0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc-binding0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpdb0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-krb5pac0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgensec0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-standard0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-util0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-standard0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-hostconfig0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamdb0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbldap0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient-raw0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpdb0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbldap0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamdb0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbconf0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-krb5pac0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnetapi0-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-nbt0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-util0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgensec0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-nbt0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-hostconfig0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbconf0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-credentials0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0240

BID: 72711