CVE-2012-2111

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2012-04-30
Bugzilla:
813569: CVE-2012-2111 samba: Incorrect permission checks when granting/removing privileges

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The (1) CreateAccount, (2) OpenAccount, (3) AddAccountRights, and (4) RemoveAccountRights LSA RPC procedures in smbd in Samba 3.4.x before 3.4.17, 3.5.x before 3.5.15, and 3.6.x before 3.6.5 do not properly restrict modifications to the privileges database, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain the "take ownership" privilege via an LSA connection.

Find out more about CVE-2012-2111 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (samba3x) RHSA-2012:0533 2012-04-30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (samba) RHSA-2012:0533 2012-04-30

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 samba4 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 samba Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 samba Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Ivano Cristofolini as the original reporter of this issue.

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