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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.50990
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2003:096
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2003:096.

Samba is a suite of utilities which provides file and printer sharing
services to SMB/CIFS clients.

Sebastian Krahmer discovered a security vulnerability present
in unpatched versions of Samba prior to 2.2.8. An anonymous user could use
the vulnerability to gain root access on the target machine.

Additionally, a race condition could allow an attacker to overwrite
critical system files.

All users of Samba are advised to update to the erratum packages which
contain patches to correct these vulnerabilities.

These packages contain the security fixes backported to the Samba 2.2.7
codebase.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-096.html
http://www.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.8.html

Risk factor : Critical

CVSS Score:
10.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0085
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316165/30/25370/threaded
BugTraq ID: 7106
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7106
Bugtraq: 20030317 GLSA: samba (200303-11) (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104792646416629&w=2
Bugtraq: 20030317 Security Bugfix for Samba - Samba 2.2.8 Released (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104792723017768&w=2
Bugtraq: 20030318 [OpenPKG-SA-2003.021] OpenPKG Security Advisory (samba) (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104801012929374&w=2
Bugtraq: 20030325 Fwd: APPLE-SA-2003-03-24 Samba, OpenSSL (Google Search)
Bugtraq: 20030401 Immunix Secured OS 7+ samba update (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/317145/30/25220/threaded
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#298233
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/298233
Debian Security Information: DSA-262 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-262
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200303-11.xml
Immunix Linux Advisory: IMNX-2003-7+-003-01
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:032
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A552
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-095.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-096.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/8299
http://secunia.com/advisories/8303
SGI Security Advisory: 20030302-01-I
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030302-01-I
SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2003:016 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_016_samba.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0086
BugTraq ID: 7107
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7107
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A554
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