Scovata una vulnerabilità critica in Samba presente da ben 7 anni

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I developer di Samba hanno scovato una vulnerabilità critica (CVE-2017-7494) presente in Samba da ben 7 anni (interessa tutte le versioni più recenti, da Samba 3.5.0 in poi) che consente l'esecuzione di codice in modalità remota e che potrebbe consentire ad un aggressore remoto di prendere il controllo di una macchina Linux o Unix.

CVE-2017-7494.html:

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== Subject:     Remote code execution from a writable share.
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== CVE ID#:     CVE-2017-7494
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== Versions:    All versions of Samba from 3.5.0 onwards.
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== Summary:     Malicious clients can upload and cause the smbd server
==              to execute a shared library from a writable share.
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Description
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All versions of Samba from 3.5.0 onwards are vulnerable to a remote
code execution vulnerability, allowing a malicious client to upload a
shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load
and execute it.

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Patch Availability
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A patch addressing this defect has been posted to

  http://www.samba.org/samba/security/

Additionally, Samba 4.6.4, 4.5.10 and 4.4.14 have been issued as
security releases to correct the defect. Patches against older Samba
versions are available at http://samba.org/samba/patches/. Samba
vendors and administrators running affected versions are advised to
upgrade or apply the patch as soon as possible.

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Workaround
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Add the parameter:

nt pipe support = no

to the [global] section of your smb.conf and restart smbd. This
prevents clients from accessing any named pipe endpoints. Note this
can disable some expected functionality for Windows clients.

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Credits
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This problem was found by steelo . Volker
Lendecke of SerNet and the Samba Team provided the fix.

Se siete su Ubuntu e derivate la vulnerabilità è stata già corretta con i recenti aggiornamenti e dunque vi basterà soltanto aggiornare il sistema.

Leggi il contenuto originale su Marco's Box