SB2015123005 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Samba
Published: December 30, 2015 Updated: July 28, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015123005
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5252)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
vfs.c in smbd in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, when share names with certain substring relationships exist, allows remote attackers to bypass intended file-access restrictions via a symlink that points outside of a share.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00032.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00046.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79733
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034493
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290288
- https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=4278ef25f64d5fdbf432ff1534e275416ec9561e
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05115993
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-47
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-5252.html