Issued:
2011-08-29
Updated:
2011-08-29

RHSA-2011:1220 - Moderate: samba3x security update

Synopsis

Moderate: samba3x security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated samba3x packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the password change page of the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT). If a remote attacker could trick a user, who was logged into the SWAT interface, into visiting a specially-crafted URL, it would lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of the user's SWAT session. (CVE-2011-2694)

It was found that SWAT web pages did not protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. If a remote attacker could trick a user, who was logged into the SWAT interface, into visiting a specially-crafted URL, the attacker could perform Samba configuration changes with the privileges of the logged in user. (CVE-2011-2522)

It was found that the fix for CVE-2010-0547, provided by the Samba rebase in RHBA-2011:0054, was incomplete. The mount.cifs tool did not properly handle share or directory names containing a newline character, allowing a local attacker to corrupt the mtab (mounted file systems table) file via a specially-crafted CIFS (Common Internet File System) share mount request, if mount.cifs had the setuid bit set. (CVE-2011-2724)

It was found that the mount.cifs tool did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab file. If mount.cifs had the setuid bit set, a local attacker could corrupt the mtab file by setting a small file size limit before running mount.cifs. (CVE-2011-1678)

Note: mount.cifs from the samba3x packages distributed by Red Hat does not have the setuid bit set. We recommend that administrators do not manually set the setuid bit for mount.cifs.

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting CVE-2011-2694 and CVE-2011-2522, and Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2011-1678. Upstream acknowledges Nobuhiro Tsuji of NTT DATA Security Corporation as the original reporter of CVE-2011-2694, and Yoshihiro Ishikawa of LAC Co., Ltd. as the original reporter of CVE-2011-2522.

Users of Samba are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing this update, the smb service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • samba3x-swat-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • samba3x-client-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • samba3x-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • samba3x-common-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • samba3x-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • samba3x-client-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • samba3x-common-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • samba3x-doc-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • samba3x-common-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • samba3x-doc-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • samba3x-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • samba3x-client-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • samba3x-doc-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • samba3x-swat-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • samba3x-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • samba3x-common-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • samba3x-swat-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • samba3x-common-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • samba3x-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.src.rpm
  • samba3x-client-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390.rpm
  • samba3x-swat-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • samba3x-doc-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • samba3x-swat-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • samba3x-client-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • samba3x-doc-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • samba3x-3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2.i386.rpm

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