Input validation error in Samba - CVE-2015-5296
Published: December 30, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32348
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5296
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
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 supports connections that are encrypted but unsigned, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct encrypted-to-unencrypted downgrade attacks by modifying the client-server data stream, related to clidfs.c, libsmb_server.c, and smbXcli_base.c.
Affected software
Samba
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
samba (Alpine package)
HP-UX Common Internet File System (CIFS)
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
samba (Alpine package)
HP-UX Common Internet File System (CIFS)
How to mitigate CVE-2015-5296
Install update from vendor's website.
Samba - addressed in versions 4.1.22, 4.2.7, 4.3.3
samba (Alpine package) - update to 4.2.7-r0
HP-UX Common Internet File System (CIFS) - update to 03.02.04
samba (Alpine package) - update to 4.2.7-r0
HP-UX Common Internet File System (CIFS) - update to 03.02.04
External 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/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/79732
- 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=1290292
- https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=1ba49b8f389eda3414b14410c7fbcb4041ca06b1
- https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=a819d2b440aafa3138d95ff6e8b824da885a70e9
- https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=d724f835acb9f4886c0001af32cd325dbbf1f895
- 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-2015-5296.html
Related Security Bulletins
- Input validation error in Samba
- SUSE Linux update for samba
- SUSE Linux update for samba
- OpenSUSE Linux update for ldb, samba, talloc, tdb, tevent
- SUSE Linux update for ldb, samba, talloc, tdb, tevent
- SUSE Linux update for ldb, samba, talloc, tdb, tevent
- Input validation error in samba (Alpine package)
- Amazon Linux AMI update for samba
- Multiple vulnerabilities in HPE HP-UX CIFS-Server (Samba)