The Samba vfsfruit 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 vfsfruit 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.

isclosingsession() allows users to consume RAM in the Apport process

~/.config/apport/settings parsing is vulnerable to "billion laughs" attack

Last updated 24 July 2024

Apport argument parsing mishandles filename splitting on older kernels resulting in argument spoofing

Apport does not disable python crash handler before entering chroot

isclosingsession() allows users to fill up apport.log

isclosingsession() allows users to create arbitrary tcp dbus connections

HTTP requests for URLs with trailing newlines could bypass an upstream access control based on URL paths.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-lts package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-16 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-14 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the xorg package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-13 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-17 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the xorg-hwe-18.04 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-15 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

It was discovered that readfile() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-8 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication. An attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the plaintext password sent over the wire even if Kerberos authentication was required.

A flaw was found in the way Samba, as an Active Directory Domain Controller, implemented Kerberos name-based authentication. The Samba AD DC, could become confused about the user a ticket represents if it did not strictly require a Kerberos PAC and always use the SIDs found within. The result could include total domain compromise.

As per upstream advisory:

Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller has to take care to protect a number of sensitive attributes, and to follow a security model from Active Directory that relies totally on the intersection of NT security descriptors and the underlying X.500 Directory Access Protocol (as then expressed in LDAP) schema constraints for security.

Some attributes in Samba AD are sensitive, they apply to one object but protect others.

Users who can set msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo can become any user in the domain on the server pointed at by this list. Likewise in a domain mixed with Microsoft Windows, Samba's lack of protection of sidHistory would be a similar issue.

This would be limited to users with the right to create users or modify them (typically those who created them), however, due to other flaws, all users are able to create new user objects.

A flaw was found in the way Samba maps domain users to local users. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause possible privilege escalation.

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in base64 functions of AIDE, an advanced intrusion detection system. An attacker could crash the program and possibly execute arbitrary code through large (<16k) extended file attributes or ACL. A local user might exploit this flaw for root privilege escalation.

In strongSwan before 5.9.5, a malicious responder can send an EAP-Success message too early without actually authenticating the client and (in the case of EAP methods with mutual authentication and EAP-only authentication for IKEv2) even without server authentication.

There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned