- Vulnerabilities 87,972
CentOS Update for samba CESA-2009:1529 centos5 i386
Published: 2011-08-09 06:20:34
CVE Author: NIST National Vulnerability Database
CVSS Base Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'samba'
Linux Distribution Package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Affected Versions:
samba on CentOS 5
Technical Details:
Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and
other information.
A denial of service flaw was found in the Samba smbd daemon. An
authenticated, remote user could send a specially-crafted response that
would cause an smbd child process to enter an infinite loop. An
authenticated, remote user could use this flaw to exhaust system resources
by opening multiple CIFS sessions. (CVE-2009-2906)
An uninitialized data access flaw was discovered in the smbd daemon when
using the non-default 'dos filemode' configuration option in 'smb.conf'. An
authenticated, remote user with write access to a file could possibly use
this flaw to change an access control list for that file, even when such
access should have been denied. (CVE-2009-1888)
A flaw was discovered in the way Samba handled users without a home
directory set in the back-end password database (e.g. '/etc/passwd'). If a
share for the home directory of such a user was created (e.g. using the
automated '[homes]' share), any user able to access that share could see
the whole file system, possibly bypassing intended access restrictions.
(CVE-2009-2813)
The mount.cifs program printed CIFS passwords as part of its debug output
when running in verbose mode. When mount.cifs had the setuid bit set, a
local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to disclose passwords from a
file that would otherwise be inaccessible to that user. Note: mount.cifs
from the samba Linux Distribution Packages distributed by Red Hat does not have the setuid bit
set. This flaw only affected systems where the setuid bit was manually set
by an administrator. (CVE-2009-2948)
Users of Samba should upgrade to these updated Linux Distribution Packages, which contain
backported patches to correct these issues. After installing this update,
the smb service will be restarted automatically.
Recommendations:
Please install the updated Linux Distribution Packages.
Detection Type:
Linux Distribution Package
Solution Type:
Vendor Patch
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1888
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2813
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2906
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2948
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-October/016276.html
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