CVE-2021-44142

The Samba vfs_fruit module uses extended file attributes (EA, xattr) to provide "...enhanced compatibility with Apple SMB clients and interoperability with a Netatalk 3 AFP fileserver." Samba versions prior to 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5 with vfs_fruit configured allow out-of-bounds heap read and write via specially crafted extended file attributes. A remote attacker with write access to extended file attributes can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of smbd, typically root.

The Samba vfs_fruit module uses extended file attributes (EA, xattr) to provide "...enhanced compatibility with Apple SMB clients and interoperability with a Netatalk 3 AFP fileserver." Samba versions prior to 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5 with vfs_fruit configured allow out-of-bounds heap read and write via specially crafted extended file attributes. A remote attacker with write access to extended file attributes can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of smbd, typically root.

The Samba vfs_fruit module uses extended file attributes (EA, xattr) to provide "...enhanced compatibility with Apple SMB clients and interoperability with a Netatalk 3 AFP fileserver." Samba versions prior to 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5 with vfs_fruit configured allow out-of-bounds heap read and write via specially crafted extended file attributes. A remote attacker with write access to extended file attributes can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of smbd, typically root.

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Security Fix(es):

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root on affected Samba installations that use the VFS module vfs_fruit.(CVE-2021-44142)

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: Out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit allows code execution (CVE-2021-44142)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• Fix username map script regression introduced with CVE-2020-25717 (BZ#2046174)

• Fix possible segfault when joining the domain (BZ#2046160)

The Samba vfs_fruit module uses extended file attributes (EA, xattr) to provide "...enhanced compatibility with Apple SMB clients and interoperability with a Netatalk 3 AFP fileserver." Samba versions prior to 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5 with vfs_fruit configured allow out-of-bounds heap read and write via specially crafted extended file attributes. A remote attacker with write access to extended file attributes can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of smbd, typically root.

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: Out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit allows code execution (CVE-2021-44142)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• Fix username map script regression introduced with CVE-2020-25717 (BZ#2046174)

• Fix possible segfault when joining the domain (BZ#2046160)

• CVE-2021-44142: Fix out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit (rhbz#2046152)

• CVE-2021-44142: Fix out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit(rhbz#2046152)

• SECURITY UPDATE: code exec via out-of-bounds read/write in vfs_fruit
  • debian/patches/CVE-2021-44142.patch: refactor get_entry function in order to add additional checks
  • CVE-2021-44142

• Rebase onto RHEL samba-4.14.5-9.el8_5: CVE-2021-44142, the CVE-2020-25717 username map script regression, the domain-join segfault and the dangling symlink directory deletion fixes are now provided by the base.
• Re-apply TuxCare ELS security backports on the new base:
• CVE-2022-32742: fix server memory information leak via SMB1
• CVE-2022-38023: avoid weak rc4-hmac encryption algorithm for the Netlogon RPC
• CVE-2022-1615: util/genrand: don't ignore errors in random number generation
• CVE-2022-2127: fix out-of-bounds read triggered by a malicious request
• CVE-2023-34966: fix infinite loop vulnerability in mdssvc RPC service
• CVE-2023-3961: fix a path traversal out of the socket directory
• CVE-2023-4091: fix file truncation issue in acl_xattr module
• CVE-2023-34967: fix type confusion vulnerability in mdssvc RPC service
• CVE-2023-34968: fix path disclosure vulnerability in mdssvc
• CVE-2023-42669: disable the rpcecho server
• CVE-2026-4480: escape shell metacharacters in the client-controlled print job name before substituting it into "print command" via %J

For CVE-2021-20316 and CVE-2021-44141, there is only a workaround and mitigation:

All versions of Samba prior to 4.15.5 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a server symlink to determine if a file or directory exists in an area of the server file system not exported under the share definition. SMB1 with unix extensions has to be enabled in order for this attack to succeed.

Clients that have write access to the exported part of the file system under a share via SMB1 unix extensions or via NFS can create symlinks that point to arbitrary files or directories on the server filesystem.

Clients can then use SMB1 unix extension information queries to determine if the target of the symlink exists or not by examining error codes returned from the smbd server. There is no ability to access these files or directories, only to determine if they exist or not.

If SMB1 is turned off and only SMB2 is used, or unix extensions are not enabled then there is no way to discover if a symlink points to a valid target or not via SMB2. For this reason, even if symlinks are created via NFS, if the Samba server does not allow SMB1 with unix extensions there is no way to exploit this bug.

Finding out what files or directories exist on a file server can help attackers guess system user names or the exact operating system release and applications running on the server hosting Samba which may help mount further attacks.

SMB1 has been disabled on Samba since version 4.11.0 and onwards. Exploitation of this bug has not been seen in the wild.

For CVE-2021-44142, All versions of Samba prior to 4.13.17 are vulnerable to an out-of-bounds heap read write vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root on affected Samba installations that use the VFS module vfs_fruit.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of EA metadata when opening files in smbd. Access as a user that has write access to a file's extended attributes is required to exploit this vulnerability. Note that this could be a guest or unauthenticated user if such users are allowed write access to file extended attributes.

The problem in vfs_fruit exists in the default configuration of the fruit VFS module using fruit:metadata=netatalk or fruit:resource=file. If both options are set to different settings than the default values, the system is not affected by the security issue.

For CVE-2022-0336, The Samba AD DC includes checks when adding service principals names (SPNs) to an account to ensure that SPNs do not alias with those already in the database. Some of these checks are able to be bypassed if an account modification re-adds an SPN that was previously present on that account, such as one added when a computer is joined to a domain.

An attacker who has the ability to write to an account can exploit this to perform a denial-of-service attack by adding an SPN that matches an existing service. Additionally, an attacker who can intercept traffic can impersonate existing services, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and integrity.

• CVE-2021-44141: Information leak via symlinks of existance of files or directories outside of the exported share; (bso#14911); (bsc#1193690);
• CVE-2021-44142: Out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit allows code execution; (bso#14914); (bsc#1194859);
• CVE-2022-0336: Samba AD users with permission to write to an account can impersonate arbitrary services; (bso#14950); (bsc#1195048);

samba was updated to 4.15.4 (jsc#SLE-23329);

• Duplicate SMB file_ids leading to Windows client cache poisoning; (bso#14928);
• Failed to parse NTLMv2_RESPONSE length 95 - Buffer Size Error - NT_STATUS_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL; (bso#14932);
• kill_tcp_connections does not work; (bso#14934);
• Can't connect to Windows shares not requiring authentication using KDE/Gnome; (bso#14935);
• smbclient -L doesn't set 'client max protocol' to NT1 before calling the 'Reconnecting with SMB1 for workgroup listing' path; (bso#14939);
• Cross device copy of the crossrename module always fails; (bso#14940);
• symlinkat function from VFS cap module always fails with an error; (bso#14941);
• Fix possible fsp pointer deference; (bso#14942);
• Missing pop_sec_ctx() in error path inside close_directory(); (bso#14944);
• 'smbd --build-options' no longer works without an smb.conf file; (bso#14945);

Samba was updated to version 4.15.3

• CVE-2021-43566: Symlink race error can allow directory creation outside of the exported share; (bsc#1139519);
• CVE-2021-20316: Symlink race error can allow metadata read and modify outside of the exported share; (bsc#1191227);

• Reorganize libs packages. Split samba-libs into samba-client-libs, samba-libs, samba-winbind-libs and samba-ad-dc-libs, merging samba public libraries depending on internal samba libraries into these packages as there were dependency problems everytime one of these public libraries changed its version (bsc#1192684). The devel packages are merged into samba-devel.
• Rename package samba-core-devel to samba-devel
• Update the symlink create by samba-dsdb-modules to private samba ldb modules following libldb2 changes from /usr/lib64/ldb/samba to /usr/lib64/ldb2/modules/ldb/samba

krb5 was updated to 1.16.3 to 1.19.2

• Fix a denial of service attack against the KDC encrypted challenge code; (CVE-2021-36222);
• Fix a memory leak when gss_inquire_cred() is called without a credential handle.

Changes from 1.19.1:

• Fix a linking issue with Samba.
• Better support multiple pkinit_identities values by checking whether certificates can be loaded for each value.

Changes from 1.19

Administrator experience

• When a client keytab is present, the GSSAPI krb5 mech will refresh credentials even if the current credentials were acquired manually.
• It is now harder to accidentally delete the K/M entry from a KDB. Developer experience
• gss_acquire_cred_from() now supports the 'password' and 'verify' options, allowing credentials to be acquired via password and verified using a keytab key.
• When an application accepts a GSS security context, the new GSS_C_CHANNEL_BOUND_FLAG will be set if the initiator and acceptor both provided matching channel bindings.
• Added the GSS_KRB5_NT_X509_CERT name type, allowing S4U2Self requests to identify the desired client principal by certificate.
• PKINIT certauth modules can now cause the hw-authent flag to be set in issued tickets.
• The krb5_init_creds_step() API will now issue the same password expiration warnings as krb5_get_init_creds_password(). Protocol evolution
• Added client and KDC support for Microsoft's Resource-Based Constrained Delegation, which allows cross-realm S4U2Proxy requests. A third-party database module is required for KDC support.
• kadmin/admin is now the preferred server principal name for kadmin connections, and the host-based form is no longer created by default. The client will still try the host-based form as a…

These are all security issues fixed in the ctdb-4.15.5+git.328.f1f29505d84-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

This update for samba fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2021-44142: Fixed out-of-Bound Read/Write on Samba vfs_fruit module. (bsc#1194859)

This update for samba fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2021-44142: Fixed out-of-Bound Read/Write on Samba vfs_fruit module. (bsc#1194859)

This update for samba fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2021-44142: Fixed out-of-Bound Read/Write on Samba vfs_fruit module. (bsc#1194859)

• CVE-2021-44141: Information leak via symlinks of existance of files or directories outside of the exported share; (bso#14911); (bsc#1193690);
• CVE-2021-44142: Out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit allows code execution; (bso#14914); (bsc#1194859);
• CVE-2022-0336: Samba AD users with permission to write to an account can impersonate arbitrary services; (bso#14950); (bsc#1195048);

samba was updated to 4.15.4 (jsc#SLE-23329);

• Duplicate SMB file_ids leading to Windows client cache poisoning; (bso#14928);
• Failed to parse NTLMv2_RESPONSE length 95 - Buffer Size Error - NT_STATUS_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL; (bso#14932);
• kill_tcp_connections does not work; (bso#14934);
• Can't connect to Windows shares not requiring authentication using KDE/Gnome; (bso#14935);
• smbclient -L doesn't set 'client max protocol' to NT1 before calling the 'Reconnecting with SMB1 for workgroup listing' path; (bso#14939);
• Cross device copy of the crossrename module always fails; (bso#14940);
• symlinkat function from VFS cap module always fails with an error; (bso#14941);
• Fix possible fsp pointer deference; (bso#14942);
• Missing pop_sec_ctx() in error path inside close_directory(); (bso#14944);
• 'smbd --build-options' no longer works without an smb.conf file; (bso#14945);

Samba was updated to version 4.15.3

• CVE-2021-43566: Symlink race error can allow directory creation outside of the exported share; (bsc#1139519);
• CVE-2021-20316: Symlink race error can allow metadata read and modify outside of the exported share; (bsc#1191227);

• Reorganize libs packages. Split samba-libs into samba-client-libs, samba-libs, samba-winbind-libs and samba-ad-dc-libs, merging samba public libraries depending on internal samba libraries into these packages as there were dependency problems everytime one of these public libraries changed its version (bsc#1192684). The devel packages are merged into samba-devel.
• Rename package samba-core-devel to samba-devel
• Update the symlink create by samba-dsdb-modules to private samba ldb modules following libldb2 changes from /usr/lib64/ldb/samba to /usr/lib64/ldb2/modules/ldb/samba

krb5 was updated to 1.16.3 to 1.19.2

• Fix a denial of service attack against the KDC encrypted challenge code; (CVE-2021-36222);
• Fix a memory leak when gss_inquire_cred() is called without a credential handle.

Changes from 1.19.1:

• Fix a linking issue with Samba.
• Better support multiple pkinit_identities values by checking whether certificates can be loaded for each value.

Changes from 1.19

Administrator experience

• When a client keytab is present, the GSSAPI krb5 mech will refresh credentials even if the current credentials were acquired manually.
• It is now harder to accidentally delete the K/M entry from a KDB. Developer experience
• gss_acquire_cred_from() now supports the 'password' and 'verify' options, allowing credentials to be acquired via password and verified using a keytab key.
• When an application accepts a GSS security context, the new GSS_C_CHANNEL_BOUND_FLAG will be set if the initiator and acceptor both provided matching channel bindings.
• Added the GSS_KRB5_NT_X509_CERT name type, allowing S4U2Self requests to identify the desired client principal by certificate.
• PKINIT certauth modules can now cause the hw-authent flag to be set in issued tickets.
• The krb5_init_creds_step() API will now issue the same password expiration warnings as krb5_get_init_creds_password(). Protocol evolution
• Added client and KDC support for Microsoft's Resource-Based Constrained Delegation, which allows cross-realm S4U2Proxy requests. A third-party database module is required for KDC support.
• kadmin/admin is now the preferred server principal name for kadmin connections, and the host-based form is no longer created by default. The client will still try the host-based form as a…

This update for samba fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2021-44142: Fixed out-of-Bound Read/Write on Samba vfs_fruit module. (bsc#1194859)

This update for samba fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2021-44142: Fixed out-of-Bound Read/Write on Samba vfs_fruit module. (bsc#1194859)

This update contains a major security update for Samba.

samba has received security fixes:

• CVE-2021-44141: Information leak via symlinks of existance of files or directories outside of the exported share (bsc#1193690);
• CVE-2021-44142: Out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit allows code execution (bsc#1194859);
• CVE-2022-0336: Samba AD users with permission to write to an account can impersonate arbitrary services (bsc#1195048);

samba was updated to version 4.15.4; (jsc#SLE-23330);

• CVE-2021-43566: Symlink race error can allow directory creation outside of the exported share; (bso#13979); (bsc#1139519);
• CVE-2021-20316: Symlink race error can allow metadata read and modify outside of the exported share; (bso#14842); (bsc#1191227);

• Build samba with embedded talloc, pytalloc, pytalloc-util, tdb, pytdb, tevent, pytevent, ldb, pyldb and pyldb-util libraries. The tdb and ldb tools are installed in /usr/lib[64]/samba/bin and their manpages in /usr/lib[64]/samba/man

  This avoids removing old functionality.

samba was updated to 4.15.4:

• Duplicate SMB file_ids leading to Windows client cache poisoning; (bso#14928);
• Failed to parse NTLMv2_RESPONSE length 95 - Buffer Size Error - NT_STATUS_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL; (bso#14932);
• kill_tcp_connections does not work; (bso#14934);
• Can't connect to Windows shares not requiring authentication using KDE/Gnome; (bso#14935);
• smbclient -L doesn't set 'client max protocol' to NT1 before calling the 'Reconnecting with SMB1 for workgroup listing' path; (bso#14939);
• Cross device copy of the crossrename module always fails; (bso#14940);
• symlinkat function from VFS cap module always fails with an error; (bso#14941);
• Fix possible fsp pointer deference; (bso#14942);
• Missing pop_sec_ctx() in error path inside close_directory(); (bso#14944);
• 'smbd --build-options' no longer works without an smb.conf file; (bso#14945);

• Reorganize libs packages. Split samba-libs into samba-client-libs, samba-libs, samba-winbind-libs and samba-ad-dc-libs, merging samba public libraries depending on internal samba libraries into these packages as there were dependency problems everytime one of these public libraries changed its version (bsc#1192684). The devel packages are merged into samba-devel.
• Rename package samba-core-devel to samba-devel
• Update the symlink create by samba-dsdb-modules to private samba ldb modules following libldb2 changes from /usr/lib64/ldb/samba to /usr/lib64/ldb2/modules/ldb/samba

sssd was updated:

• Build with the newer samba versions; (jsc#SLE-23330);
• Fix a dependency loop by moving internal libraries to sssd-common package; (bsc#1182058);

p11-kit was updated:

Update to 0.23.2; (jsc#SLE-23330);

• Fix forking issues with libffi
• Fix various crashes in corner cases
• Updated translations
• Build fixes

• Fix multiple integer overflows in rpc code (bsc#1180064 CVE-2020-29361):
• Add support for CKA_NSS_{SERVER,EMAIL}_DISTRUST_AFTER (bsc#1187993)

ca-certificates was updated:

• p11-kit 0.23.1 supports pem-directory-hash. (jsc#SLE-23330)

This update also ships:

• libnettle 3.1 and gnutls 3.4.17 as parallel libraries to meet the requires of the newer samba.

apparmor was updated:

• Update samba apparmor profiles for samba 4.15 (jsc#SLE-23330);

yast2-samba-client was updated:

• With latest versions of samba (>=4.15.0) calling 'net ads lookup' with '-U%' fails; (boo#1193533).
• yast-samba-client fails to join if /etc/samba/smb.conf or /etc/krb5.conf don't exist; (bsc#1089938)
• Do not stop nmbd while nmbstatus is running, it is not necessary anymore; (bsc#1158916);

This update for ldb, samba fixes the following issues:

Changes in ldb:

• CVE-2020-25718: An RODC can issue (forge) administrator tickets to other servers; (bsc#1192246)
• CVE-2021-3738: Fixed a crash in dsdb stack (bsc#1192215)

Release ldb 2.2.2

• Corrected python behaviour for 'in' for LDAP attributes contained as part of ldb.Message
• Fix memory handling in ldb.msg_diff
• Backport bronze bit fixes, tests, and selftest improvements.

Changes in samba:

• CVE-2021-44142: Fixed an Out-of-Bound Read/Write on Samba vfs_fruit module; (bsc#1194859)

• The username map [script] advice from CVE-2020-25717 advisory note has undesired side effects for the local nt token. Fallback to a SID/UID based mapping if the name based lookup fails; (bsc#1192849); (bso#14901).

• Fix regression introduced by CVE-2020-25717 patches, winbindd does not start when 'allow trusted domains' is off; (bso#14899);

• CVE-2020-25717: Fixed that a user on the domain can become root on domain members; (bsc#1192284); (bso#14556).

• CVE-2020-25721: auth: Fill in the new HAS_SAM_NAME_AND_SID values; (bsc#1192505); (bso#14564).

• CVE-2020-25718: An RODC can issue (forge) administrator tickets to other servers; (bsc#1192246);(bso#14558).

• CVE-2020-25719: Fixed AD DC Username based races when no PAC is given;(bsc#1192247);(bso#14561).

• CVE-2020-25722: Fixed that AD DC UPN vs samAccountName not checked (top-level bug for AD DC validation issues);(bsc#1192283); (bso#14564).

• CVE-2021-3738: Fixed a crash in dsdb stack;(bsc#1192215); (bso#14468).

• CVE-2021-23192: Fixed that dcerpc requests don't check all fragments against the first auth_state;(bsc#1192214);(bso#14875).

• CVE-2016-2124: don't fallback to non spnego authentication if we require kerberos; (bsc#1014440); (bso#12444).

Update to 4.13.13

• rodc_rwdc test flaps;(bso#14868).
• Backport bronze bit fixes, tests, and selftest improvements; (bso#14881).
• Provide a fix for MS CVE-2020-17049 in Samba [SECURITY] 'Bronze bit' S4U2Proxy Constrained Delegation bypass in Samba with embedded Heimdal;(bso#14642).
• Python ldb.msg_diff() memory handling failure;(bso#14836).
• 'in' operator on ldb.Message is case sensitive;(bso#14845).
• Fix Samba support for UF_NO_AUTH_DATA_REQUIRED;(bso#14871).
• Allow special chars like '@' in samAccountName when generating the salt;(bso#14874).
• Fix transit path validation;(bso#12998).
• Prepare to operate with MIT krb5 >= 1.20;(bso#14870).
• rpcclient NetFileEnum and net rpc file both cause lock order violation: brlock.tdb, share_entries.tdb;(bso#14645).
• Python ldb.msg_diff() memory handling failure;(bso#14836).
• Release LDB 2.3.1 for Samba 4.14.9;(bso#14848).

• Update to 4.13.12

  • Address a signifcant performance regression in database access in the AD DC since Samba 4.12;(bso#14806).
  • Fix performance regression in lsa_LookupSids3/LookupNames4 since Samba 4.9 by using an explicit database handle cache; (bso#14807).
  • An unuthenticated user can crash the AD DC KDC by omitting the server name in a TGS-REQ;(bso#14817).
  • Address flapping samba_tool_drs_showrepl test;(bso#14818).
  • Address flapping dsdb_schema_attributes test;(bso#14819).
  • An unuthenticated user can crash the AD DC KDC by omitting the server name in a TGS-REQ;(bso#14817).
  • Fix CTDB flag/status update race conditions(bso#14784).

• Update to 4.13.11

  • smbd: panic on force-close share during offload write; (bso#14769).
  • Fix returned attributes on fake quota file handle and avoid hitting the VFS;(bso#14731).
  • smbd: 'deadtime' parameter doesn't work anymore;(bso#14783).
  • net conf list crashes when run as normal user;(bso#14787).
  • Work around special SMB2 READ response behavior of NetApp Ontap 7.3.7;(bso#14607).
  • Start the SMB encryption as soon as possible;(bso#14793).
  • Winbind should not start if the socket path for the…

Orange Tsai discovered that the Samba vfs_fruit module incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2021-44142)

Michael Hanselmann discovered that Samba incorrectly created directories. In certain configurations, a remote attacker could possibly create a directory on the server outside of the shared directory. (CVE-2021-43566)

Kees van Vloten discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain aliased SPN checks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to impersonate services. (CVE-2022-0336)

Orange Tsai discovered that the Samba vfs_fruit module incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2021-44142)

USN-5260-1 fixed a vulnerability in Samba. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Orange Tsai discovered that the Samba vfs_fruit module incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2021-44142)