SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2016:0164-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 88005

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for Samba fixes the following security issues :

- CVE-2015-5330: Remote read memory exploit in LDB (bnc#958586)

- CVE-2015-5252: Insufficient symlink verification (file access outside the share) (bnc#958582)

- CVE-2015-5296: No man in the middle protection when forcing smb encryption on the client side (bnc#958584)

- CVE-2015-5299: Currently the snapshot browsing is not secure thru windows previous version (shadow_copy2) (bnc#958583)

Non-security issues fixed :

- Prevent NULL pointer access in samlogon fallback when security credentials are null (bnc#949022)

- Ensure samlogon fall-back requests are rerouted after kerberos failure (bnc#953382)

- Ensure 'Your account is disabled' message is displayed when attempting to ssh into locked account (bnc#953382)

- Address unrecoverable winbind failure: 'key length too large' (bnc#934299)

- Take resource group sids into account when caching netsamlogon data (bnc#912457)

- Fix lookup of groups with 'Local Domain' scope from Active Directory (bnc#948244)

- dependency issue with samba-winbind (bnc#936909)

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 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-samba-20160113-12338=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-samba-20160113-12338=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-samba-20160113-12338=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-samba-20160113-12338=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-samba-20160113-12338=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-samba-20160113-12338=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-samba-20160113-12338=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-samba-20160113-12338=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-samba-20160113-12338=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 88005

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0164-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/20/2016

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: 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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 1/19/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/29/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5252, CVE-2015-5296, CVE-2015-5299, CVE-2015-5330

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