Volker Lendecke of SerNet and the Samba team discovered that Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix, is prone to a heap memory information leak, where server allocated heap memory may be returned to the client without being cleared.
For Debian 7 ‘Wheezy’, these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15.
We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1183-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(104720);
script_version("3.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-15275");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1183-1 : samba security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Volker Lendecke of SerNet and the Samba team discovered that Samba, a
SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix, is prone to a heap
memory information leak, where server allocated heap memory may be
returned to the client without being cleared.
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15.
We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00029.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/samba"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-winbind");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-smbpass");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-winbind");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-doc-pdf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:smbclient");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:swat");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:winbind");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/11/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/11/22");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libnss-winbind", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libpam-smbpass", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libpam-winbind", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libsmbclient", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libsmbclient-dev", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libwbclient-dev", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libwbclient0", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"samba", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"samba-common", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"samba-common-bin", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"samba-dbg", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"samba-doc", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"samba-doc-pdf", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"samba-tools", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"smbclient", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"swat", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"winbind", reference:"2:3.6.6-6+deb7u15")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | libnss-winbind | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-winbind |
debian | debian_linux | libpam-smbpass | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-smbpass |
debian | debian_linux | libpam-winbind | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-winbind |
debian | debian_linux | libsmbclient | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient |
debian | debian_linux | libsmbclient-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient-dev |
debian | debian_linux | libwbclient-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient-dev |
debian | debian_linux | libwbclient0 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient0 |
debian | debian_linux | samba | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba |
debian | debian_linux | samba-common | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common |
debian | debian_linux | samba-common-bin | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common-bin |