Bug 286271 (CVE-2007-4138) - CVE-2007-4138 samba incorrect primary group assignment for domain users using the rfc2307 or sfu winbind nss info plugin
Summary: CVE-2007-4138 samba incorrect primary group assignment for domain users using...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-4138
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://www.samba.org/samba/security/C...
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Depends On: 286311 351481 351491 351501 351511
Blocks: 338811 338821
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Reported: 2007-09-11 16:04 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2023-05-11 12:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-01-08 12:29:48 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2007:1016 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba security update 2007-11-15 16:25:11 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2007:1017 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: samba security update 2007-11-15 16:29:13 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2007-09-11 16:04:19 UTC
New Samba release 3.0.26 fixes following security issue [1]:

Summary:

When the "winbind nss info" parameter in smb.conf is set to either "sfu" or
"rfc2307", Windows users are incorrectly assigned a primary gid of 0 in the
absence of the RFC2307 or Services or Unix (SFU) primary group attributes.

Description:

The idmap_ad.so library provides an nss_info extension to Winbind
for retrieving a user's home directory path, login shell and
primary group id from an Active Directory domain controller.  This
functionality is enabled by defining the "winbind nss info"
smb.conf option to either "sfu" or "rfc2307".

Both the Windows "Identity Management for Unix" and "Services for
Unix" MMC plug-ins allow a user to be assigned a primary group
for Unix clients that differs from the user's Windows primary group.
When the rfc2307 or sfu nss_info plugin has been enabled, in
the absence of either the RFC2307 or SFU primary group attribute,
Winbind will assign a primary group ID of 0 to the domain user
queried using the getpwnam() C library call.

Only affects versions: 3.0.25 - 3.0.25c

Patch: [2]

[1] http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-4138.html
[2] http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/patches/security/samba-3.0.25-CVE-2007-4138.patch

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Rick King for responsibly disclosing this issue.

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2007-09-11 16:17:53 UTC
This issue did not affect version of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2007-10-24 17:06:25 UTC
This issue does however affect the versions of Samba being shipped in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4.6 and 5.1.

Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2008-01-08 12:29:48 UTC
Fixed in affected products:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:  	
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1016.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1017.html

Fedora:
  updated to fixed upstream version



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