SB2023012452 - Ubuntu update for samba

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 7 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-20251)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a brute-force attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in Samba when incrementing bad password attempts. Each connection to Samba gets a separate process, and each process loads, increments, and saves the bad password count without any coordination. A remote attacker can perform a brute-force attack using multiple threats and bypass imposed limits on the number of allowed incorrect passwords.

2) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3437)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the GSSAPI unwrap_des() and unwrap_des3() routines of Heimdal. A remote user can send specially crafted data to the application, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

3) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-37966)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in Windows Kerberos RC4-HMAC. A remote attacker can conduct a man-in-middle (MiTM) attack, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.

4) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-37967)

The vulnerability allows a remote administrator to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in Kerberos, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.

5) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38023)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to security features bypass in Netlogon RPC. A remote attacker can bypass the Netlogon cryptography feature for signing and sealing traffic during Netlogon authentication.

6) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42898)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to an integer overflow within the S4U2Proxy handler on 32-bit systems. A remote user can send specially crafted request to the KDC server, trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

7) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45141)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication.

The vulnerability exists due to an error that allows an attacker to force the server so issue an rc4-hmac ticket encrypted tickets despite the target server supporting better encryption (eg aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96). A remote attacker can perform an offline attack against the ticket encrypted with rc4-hmac and login as a privileged user.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5822-1