Medium: samba

Issue Overview:

A missing access control flaw was found in Samba. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to view the current snapshot on a Samba share, despite not having DIRECTORY_LIST access rights.

An access flaw was found in the way Samba verified symbolic links when creating new files on a Samba share. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to gain access to files outside of Samba’s share path.

A memory-read flaw was found in the way the libldb library processed LDB DN records with a null byte. An authenticated, remote attacker could use this flaw to read heap-memory pages from the server.

A man-in-the-middle vulnerability was found in the way “connection signing” was implemented by Samba. A remote attacker could use this flaw to downgrade an existing Samba client connection and force the use of plain text.

Affected Packages:

samba

Issue Correction:
Run yum update samba to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    samba-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    libsmbclient-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-winbind-modules-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    ctdb-tests-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-client-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-debuginfo-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-libs-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-winbind-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-test-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-client-libs-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-common-libs-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    libwbclient-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    ctdb-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-test-libs-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-test-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-winbind-krb5-locator-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-common-tools-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-winbind-clients-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    libsmbclient-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    samba-python-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    libwbclient-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
    ctdb-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    samba-pidl-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.noarch  
    samba-common-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    samba-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    samba-libs-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    libsmbclient-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-winbind-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-test-libs-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-common-libs-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-debuginfo-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    ctdb-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-winbind-modules-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-client-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    ctdb-tests-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-common-tools-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    ctdb-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-python-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-winbind-krb5-locator-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-test-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-winbind-clients-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-client-libs-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    libsmbclient-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    samba-test-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    libwbclient-devel-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  
    libwbclient-4.2.3-11.28.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

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

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