RHSA-2016:1494 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for samba is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

Security Fix(es):

• A flaw was found in the way Samba initiated signed DCE/RPC connections. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to downgrade the connection to not use signing and therefore impersonate the server. (CVE-2016-2119)

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Stefan Metzmacher as the original reporter.

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.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1351955 - CVE-2016-2119 samba: Client side SMB2/3 required signing can be downgraded

CVEs

• CVE-2016-2119

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal