Security Bulletin
Summary
Samba for IBM i is vulnerable to an attacker obtaining sensitive information due to a memory leak handling SMB1 requests as described in the vulnerability details section. IBM i has addressed the vulnerability in Samba with a fix as described in the remediation/fixes section.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2022-32742
DESCRIPTION: Samba could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a memory leak when handling SMB1 requests. By sending a specially-crafted request to write data to a file share, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain memory information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232306 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
IBM i | 7.4 |
IBM i | 7.3 |
Remediation/Fixes
Important note: IBM recommends that all users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to supported and fixed version of affected products.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
16 Aug 2022: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 August 2022
UID
ibm16613223