Security Bulletin: Multiple Samba vulnerabilities affect IBM SONAS

Summary

IBM SONAS is shipped with Samba, for which a fix is available for security vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

Samba is used in IBM SONAS to enable file management and authentication services for Microsoft Windows environments.

CVEID: CVE-2017-15275**
DESCRIPTION:** Samba could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a heap memory information leak. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain password hashes or other high-value data.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135221 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-14746**
DESCRIPTION:** Samba could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free memory error. By sending a specially crafted SMB1 request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135222 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM SONAS
The product is affected when running a code releases 1.5.0.0 to 1.5.2.8

Remediation/Fixes

A fix for these issues is in version 1.5.2.9 of IBM SONAS. Customers running an affected version of SONAS should upgrade to 1.5.2.9 or a later version, so that the fix gets applied.

Systems running older/unsupported versions should be upgraded to the latest V1.5.x release to obtain available security fixes.

Please contact IBM support for assistance in upgrading your system.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None