SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2016:0814-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90063

Synopsis

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

Description

This update for samba fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2015-7560: Getting and setting Windows ACLs on symlinks can change permissions on link target.
(bso#11648 bsc#968222)

Also the following bugs were fixed :

- Add quotes around path of update-apparmor-samba-profile;
(bsc#962177).

- Prevent access denied if the share path is '/';
(bso#11647); (bsc#960249).

- Ensure samlogon fallback requests are rerouted after kerberos failure; (bsc#953382).

- samba: winbind crash -> netlogon_creds_client_authenticator; (bsc#953972).

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-12-2016-477=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-477=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-477=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953382

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953972

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960249

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962177

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968222

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7560/

http://www.nessus.org/u?d42af1ac

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90063

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0814-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/21/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC: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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7560