Debian DLA-379-1 : samba security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87683

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were found in Samba, a SMB/CIFS implementation that provides a file, print, and login server.

CVE-2015-5252

Jan 'Yenya' Kasprzak and the Computer Systems Unit team at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, reported that samba wrongly verified symlinks, making it possible to access resources outside the shared path, under certain circumstances.

CVE-2015-5296

Stefan Metzmacher of SerNet and the Samba Team discovered that samba did not ensure that signing was negotiated when a client established an encrypted connection against a samba server.

CVE-2015-5299

Samba was vulnerable to a missing access control check in the VFS shadow_copy2 module, that could allow unauthorized users to access snapshots.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', this issue has been fixed in samba version 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze13. We recommend you to upgrade your samba packages.

Learn more about the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Project and how to apply these updates at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/01/msg00001.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/samba

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87683

File Name: debian_DLA-379.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-smbpass, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-doc-pdf, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:swat, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:winbind, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5252, CVE-2015-5296, CVE-2015-5299