ALAS-2017-933

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-14746   CVE-2017-15275  

Use-after-free in processing SMB1 requestsA use-after-free flaw was found in the way samba servers handled certain SMB1 requests. An unauthenticated attacker could send specially-crafted SMB1 requests to cause the server to crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-14746) Server heap-memory disclosureA memory disclosure flaw was found in samba. An attacker could retrieve parts of server memory, which could contain potentially sensitive data, by sending specially-crafted requests to the samba server. (CVE-2017-15275)

ALAS-2017-933


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-933
Advisory Release Date: 2017-12-20 18:53 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-12-21 22:58 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Use-after-free in processing SMB1 requests
A use-after-free flaw was found in the way samba servers handled certain SMB1 requests. An unauthenticated attacker could send specially-crafted SMB1 requests to cause the server to crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-14746)

Server heap-memory disclosure
A memory disclosure flaw was found in samba. An attacker could retrieve parts of server memory, which could contain potentially sensitive data, by sending specially-crafted requests to the samba server. (CVE-2017-15275)


Affected Packages:

samba


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

New Packages:
i686:
    ctdb-tests-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-devel-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-test-libs-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-client-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-winbind-modules-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-debuginfo-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-client-libs-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    ctdb-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-common-tools-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-libs-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-winbind-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-common-libs-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    libsmbclient-devel-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-krb5-printing-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-python-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    libsmbclient-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-test-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-winbind-krb5-locator-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    libwbclient-devel-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    samba-winbind-clients-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686
    libwbclient-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    samba-common-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.noarch
    samba-pidl-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.noarch

src:
    samba-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    libwbclient-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-winbind-modules-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-krb5-printing-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-devel-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    ctdb-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-test-libs-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-client-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-debuginfo-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-libs-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-common-tools-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-winbind-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-python-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-winbind-krb5-locator-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-common-libs-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    ctdb-tests-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    libsmbclient-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    libwbclient-devel-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    libsmbclient-devel-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-client-libs-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-test-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64
    samba-winbind-clients-4.6.2-12.37.amzn1.x86_64