| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'samba' package(s) announced via the USN-544-2 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
USN-544-1 fixed two vulnerabilities in Samba. Fixes for CVE-2007-5398
are unchanged, but the upstream changes for CVE-2007-4572 introduced a
regression in all releases which caused Linux smbfs mounts to fail.
Additionally, Dapper and Edgy included an incomplete patch which caused
configurations using NetBIOS to fail. A proper fix for these regressions
does not exist at this time, and so the patch addressing CVE-2007-4572
has been removed. This vulnerability is believed to be an unexploitable
denial of service, but a future update will address this issue. We
apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Samba developers discovered that nmbd could be made to overrun
a buffer during the processing of GETDC logon server requests.
When samba is configured as a Primary or Backup Domain Controller,
a remote attacker could send malicious logon requests and possibly
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-4572)
Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that nmbd did not properly
check the length of netbios packets. When samba is configured as a WINS
server, a remote attacker could send multiple crafted requests resulting
in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2007-5398)
Affected Software/OS:
'samba' package(s) on Ubuntu 6.06, Ubuntu 6.10, Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
9.3
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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