Recent discoveries have unveiled multiple security vulnerabilities in Samba, the popular SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server solution for Unix. These vulnerabilities affect various components of Samba and pose significant risks, potentially allowing unauthorized access, denial of service (DoS), or data corruption. Understanding and mitigating these vulnerabilities is crucial for maintaining the security integrity of servers utilizing Samba.
CVE-2020-14318: This vulnerability stems from improper handling of file and directory permissions. Authenticated users could exploit this to access restricted file and directory information.
CVE-2020-14323: A critical null pointer dereference flaw was found in the Winbind service affecting older versions. This vulnerability could lead to a crash of the Winbind service, resulting in a denial of service.
CVE-2020-14383: A flaw in the DNS server's handling by the RPC server can cause repeated crashes, predominantly affecting non-administrative authenticated users. Though the DNS server remains operational, the continuous crashing of RPC services could severely hinder server performance.
CVE-2022-2127: This out-of-bounds read vulnerability occurs in the NTLM authentication process managed by Winbind, where insufficient length checks could result in a server crash.
CVE-2022-32742: Inadequate range checking of some SMB1 write requests can cause unintended server memory contents to be written into files or printers instead of client-supplied data.
CVE-2022-3437: A heap-based buffer overflow discovered in the Heimdal GSSAPI library's decryption routines could trigger a denial of service through specially crafted malicious data packets.
CVE-2023-4091: This vulnerability allows SMB clients to truncate files even under read-only permissions due to misconfigurations in the "acl_xattr" Samba VFS module.
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