SB2016011806 - Amazon Linux AMI update for samba 



SB2016011806 - Amazon Linux AMI update for samba

Published: January 18, 2016

Security Bulletin ID SB2016011806
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5252)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

vfs.c in smbd in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, when share names with certain substring relationships exist, allows remote attackers to bypass intended file-access restrictions via a symlink that points outside of a share.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5296)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 supports connections that are encrypted but unsigned, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct encrypted-to-unencrypted downgrade attacks by modifying the client-server data stream, related to clidfs.c, libsmb_server.c, and smbXcli_base.c.


3) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5299)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The shadow_copy2_get_shadow_copy_data function in modules/vfs_shadow_copy2.c in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 does not verify that the DIRECTORY_LIST access right has been granted, which allows remote attackers to access snapshots by visiting a shadow copy directory.


4) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5330)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

ldb before 1.1.24, as used in the AD LDAP server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, mishandles string lengths, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from daemon heap memory by sending crafted packets and then reading (1) an error message or (2) a database value.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.