Synopsis

Moderate: samba security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for samba is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: samba (4.10.4). (BZ#1724991)

Security Fix(es):

• samba: Combination of parameters and permissions can allow user to escape from the share path definition (CVE-2019-10197)
• samba: smb client vulnerable to filenames containing path separators (CVE-2019-10218)

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 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1497809 - [RFE] smbstatus -L does not resolve UIDs to names
• BZ - 1595277 - man for net doesn't have net ads lookup
• BZ - 1657428 - Window's client cannot connect samba-4.8.3-4 using hostname. IP connection works fine
• BZ - 1663064 - AD Permissions required to join Linux computer to domain using realmd with samba in an hardened AD environment.
• BZ - 1714947 - idmap_tdb2 stops working after some time
• BZ - 1724991 - Rebase Samba to the same version as in RHEL 8.1
• BZ - 1740986 - Samba 4.9.1-6: Failed to create BUILTIN\Guests group NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED!
• BZ - 1746225 - CVE-2019-10197 samba: Combination of parameters and permissions can allow user to escape from the share path definition
• BZ - 1753254 - Trusted domain enumeration stopped working after Microsoft patch update
• BZ - 1763137 - CVE-2019-10218 samba: smb client vulnerable to filenames containing path separators

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10197
• CVE-2019-10218

References