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Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 RHSA-2021-3724 Moderate Samba Fix

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical samba security patch released for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 in RHEL 8. Addresses vulnerabilities and improves functionalities.
Updated samba packages that fix several bugs with added enhancement are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Summary

Red Hat Gluster Storage is a software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges.
Security Fix(es):
* samba: Negative idmap cache entries can cause incorrect group entries in the Samba file server process token (CVE-2021-20254)
Users of samba with Red Hat Gluster Storage are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20254 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Gluster 3.5 Samba on RHEL-8:
Source: libtalloc-2.3.2-5.el8rhgs.src.rpm samba-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.src.rpm
noarch: samba-common-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.noarch.rpm samba-pidl-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ctdb-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm ctdb-debuginfo-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libsmbclient-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libsmbclient-debuginfo-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libsmbclient-devel-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libtalloc-2.3.2-5.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libtalloc-debuginfo-2.3.2-5.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libtalloc-debugsource-2.3.2-5.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libtalloc-devel-2.3.2-5.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libwbclient-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libwbclient-debuginfo-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm libwbclient-devel-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm python3-samba-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm python3-samba-debuginfo-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm python3-talloc-2.3.2-5.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm python3-talloc-debuginfo-2.3.2-5.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm python3-talloc-devel-2.3.2-5.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm samba-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm samba-client-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm samba-client-debuginfo-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm samba-client-libs-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm samba-client-libs-debuginfo-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm samba-common-libs-4.14.5-201.el8rhgs.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3724-01
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage
Issue date: 2021-10-05

Topic

Updated samba packages that fix several bugs with added enhancement are nowavailable for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Gluster 3.5 Samba on RHEL-8 - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1944778 - /sbin/ldconfig: /lib64/libsmbldap.so.2 is not a symbolic link

1949442 - CVE-2021-20254 samba: Negative idmap cache entries can cause incorrect group entries in the Samba file server process token

1975274 - [Samba] Higher version of rhgs samba is required to avoid conflict with rhel-8.5 based samba version

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