RHSA-2023:7408 — Security Advisory

An update for samba is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and the related Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, which allow PC-compatible machines to share files, printers, and various information.

Security Fix(es):

• samba: smbd allows client access to unix domain sockets on the file system as root (CVE-2023-3961)

• samba: SMB clients can truncate files with read-only permissions (CVE-2023-4091)

• samba: "rpcecho" development server allows denial of service via sleep() call on AD DC (CVE-2023-42669)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.