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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2023:2987 Low: Samba Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The guidance from Red Hat regarding the Samba update tackles a minor severity security concern, delivering essential patches and improvements.
An update for evolution-mapi, openchange, and samba is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: samba (4.17.5). (BZ#2132051)
Security Fix(es):
* samba: GnuTLS gnutls_rnd() can fail and give predictable random values (CVE-2022-1615)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix samba low severity Linux update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1615 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: evolution-mapi-3.28.3-7.el8.src.rpm openchange-2.3-31.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: ctdb-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-mapi-3.28.3-7.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-mapi-debuginfo-3.28.3-7.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-mapi-debugsource-3.28.3-7.el8.aarch64.rpm libnetapi-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm libsmbclient-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm libwbclient-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm openchange-2.3-31.el8.aarch64.rpm openchange-client-debuginfo-2.3-31.el8.aarch64.rpm openchange-debuginfo-2.3-31.el8.aarch64.rpm openchange-debugsource-2.3-31.el8.aarch64.rpm python3-samba-dc-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm python3-samba-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-client-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-client-libs-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-common-libs-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-common-tools-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-dc-libs-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-dcerpc-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-debugsource-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-krb5-printing-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-ldb-ldap-modules-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm samba-libs-debuginfo-4.17.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2987-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2987
Issue date: 2023-05-16

Topic

An update for evolution-mapi, openchange, and samba is now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix samba low severity Linux update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2108487 - ctdb should have dependency for package samba-winbind-clients

2122649 - CVE-2022-1615 samba: GnuTLS gnutls_rnd() can fail and give predictable random values

2132051 - Rebase Samba to the the latest 4.17.x release

2142331 - samba: %U for include directive doesn't work for share listing (netshareenum)

2148943 - Samba with Winbind can not retrieve user groups from Active Directory

2152899 - Samba shares not accessible from MacOS Ventura after upgrade to Samba 4.16.4-2.el8

2167691 - samba-tool reports an uncaught exception

2169339 - winbind consuming too much memory/swap overtime

2172856 - Ship new samba subpackages

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