Summary
Tom Tervoort discovered that the Netlogon protocol implemented by Samba
incorrectly handled the authentication scheme. A remote attacker could use
this issue to forge an authentication token and steal the credentials of
the domain admin.
While a previous security update fixed the issue by changing the "server
schannel" setting to default to "yes", instead of "auto", which forced a
secure netlogon channel, this update provides additional improvements.
For compatibility reasons with older devices, Samba now allows specifying
an insecure netlogon configuration per machine. See the following link for
examples: https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-1472.html
In addition, this update adds additional server checks for the protocol
attack in the client-specified challenge to provide some protection when
'server schannel = no/auto' and avoid the false-positive results when
running the proof-of-concept exploit.
Fixed packages 3
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS | samba | 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.31 |
| Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS | samba | 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20 |
| Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS | samba | 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.5 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller, using the Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could ru…
KEV Nov 3, 2021
References
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1472