Bug 1791207 (CVE-2019-14907)

Summary:	CVE-2019-14907 samba: Crash after failed character conversion at log level 3 or above
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abokovoy, anoopcs, asn, gdeschner, hvyas, iboukris, iboukris, jarrpa, jstephen, lmohanty, madam, puebele, rhs-smb, sbose, security-response-team, sisharma, ssorce, vbellur, yozone
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	samba 4.11.5, samba 4.10.12, samba 4.9.18	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in samba. When log levels are set at 3 or higher, the string obtained from the client, after a failed character conversion, is printed which could cause long-lived processes to terminate. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-03-23 16:31:58 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1791208, 1791209, 1791662, 1793407
Bug Blocks:	1790872

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-01-15 08:50:33 UTC

As per upstream advisory:

If samba is set with "log level = 3" (or above) then the string obtained from the client, after a failed character conversion, is printed.  Such strings can be provided during the NTLMSSP authentication exchange.

In the Samba AD DC in particular, this may cause a long-lived process(such as the RPC server) to terminate.  (In the file server case, the most likely target, smbd, operates as process-per-client and so a crash there is harmless).

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-01-15 08:50:39 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Samba project
Upstream: Robert Święcki

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-01-15 08:50:43 UTC

Mitigation:

Do not set a log level of 3 or above in production.

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-01-21 10:02:08 UTC

External References:

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2019-14907.html

Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-01-21 10:03:11 UTC

Created samba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1793407]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-23 13:53:57 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2020:0943 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0943

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-23 16:31:58 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-14907

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:03:07 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1878 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1878

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 20:19:03 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:3981 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3981