samba vulnerabilities

8 March 2016

samba vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Samba.

Software Description

• samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix

Details

Jeremy Allison discovered that Samba incorrectly handled ACLs on symlink paths. A remote attacker could use this issue to overwrite the ownership of ACLs using symlinks. (CVE-2015-7560)

Garming Sam and Douglas Bagnall discovered that the Samba internal DNS server incorrectly handled certain DNS TXT records. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain uninitialized memory contents. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2016-0771)

It was discovered that the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) was vulnerable to clickjacking and cross-site request forgery attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-0213, CVE-2013-0214)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10

samba - 2:4.1.17+dfsg-4ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

samba - 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.13

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

samba - 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.17

swat - 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.17

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-0213
• CVE-2013-0214
• CVE-2015-7560
• CVE-2016-0771