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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2016-0625-01 High: Samba Protocol Flaws

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Calendar Grey April 12, 2016
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Urgent samba patch release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux tackling various security weaknesses and protocol issues.
An update for samba is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Lifecycle Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the smb service will be restarted automatically.

Summary

Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and the related Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, which allow PC-compatible machines to share files, printers, and various information.
Security Fix(es):
* A protocol flaw, publicly referred to as Badlock, was found in the Security Account Manager Remote Protocol (MS-SAMR) and the Local Security Authority (Domain Policy) Remote Protocol (MS-LSAD). Any authenticated DCE/RPC connection that a client initiates against a server could be used by a man-in-the-middle attacker to impersonate the authenticated user against the SAMR or LSA service on the server. As a result, the attacker would be able to get read/write access to the Security Account Manager database, and use this to reveal all passwords or any other potentially sensitive information in that database. (CVE-2016-2118)
* Several flaws were found in Samba's implementation of NTLMSSP authentication. An unauthenticated, man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to clear the encryption and integrity flags of a connection, causing data to be transmitted in plain text. The attacker could also force the client or server into sending data in plain text even if encryption was explicitly requested for that connection. (CVE-2016-2110)
* It was discovered that Samba configured as a Domain Controller would establish a secure communication channel with a machine using a spoofed computer name. A remote attacker able to observe network traffic could use this flaw to obtain session-related information about the spoofed machine. (CVE-2016-2111)
* It was found that Samba's LDAP implementation did not enforce integrity protection for LDAP connections. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to downgrade LDAP connections to use no integrity protection, allowing them to hijack such connections. (CVE-2016-2112)
* It was found that Samba did not enable integrity protection for IPC traffic by default. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to view and modify the data sent between a Samba server and a client. (CVE-2016-2115)
Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Stefan Metzmacher (SerNet) as the original reporter of CVE-2016-2118, CVE-2016-2110, CVE-2016-2112, and CVE-2016-2115.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2110 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2111 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2112 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2115 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2118 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/badlock https://access.redhat.com/articles/2253041 https://samba.plus https://access.redhat.com/articles/2243351

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 ELS):
Source: samba-3.0.33-3.37.el4.src.rpm
i386: samba-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-client-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-swat-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
ia64: samba-3.0.33-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm samba-client-3.0.33-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.0.33-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm samba-swat-3.0.33-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
x86_64: samba-3.0.33-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm samba-client-3.0.33-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.0.33-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm samba-swat-3.0.33-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 ELS):
Source: samba-3.0.33-3.37.el4.src.rpm
i386: samba-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-client-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-swat-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
x86_64: samba-3.0.33-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm samba-client-3.0.33-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm samba-debuginfo-3.0.33-3.37.el4.i386.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0625-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2016-04-12

Topic

An update for samba is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Extended Lifecycle Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 ELS) - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 ELS) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1311893 - CVE-2016-2110 samba: Man-in-the-middle attacks possible with NTLMSSP authentication

1311902 - CVE-2016-2111 samba: Spoofing vulnerability when domain controller is configured

1311903 - CVE-2016-2112 samba: Missing downgrade detection

1312084 - CVE-2016-2115 samba: Smb signing not required by default when smb client connection is used for ipc usage

1317990 - CVE-2016-2118 samba: SAMR and LSA man in the middle attacks

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