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NTAP-20161219-0001 — December 2016 Samba Vulnerabilities in Multiple NetApp Products
Published 2016-12-19 · Updated 2018-05-25 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: No — other NetApp product
Official advisory: NTAP-20161219-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: StorageGRID | other NetApp product
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead a buffer overflow remote code execution, user or service impersonation, or to the authenticated escalation of privileges.
Affected products
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
- StorageGRID Webscale NAS Bridge
- StorageGRID9 (9.x and prior)
Official fixes
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale) — vendor fix ↗
- StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale) — vendor fix ↗
- StorageGRID Webscale NAS Bridge — vendor fix ↗
- StorageGRID9 (9.x and prior) — vendor fix ↗
References
- https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html ↗
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2123.html ↗
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2125.html ↗
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2016-2126.html ↗
What to do
- Compare your installed product and version against the affected list above and the official advisory's affected-versions table.
- Apply the fixed release named in the official advisory, or the documented workaround if no fix ships yet.
- Limit management-plane exposure (BMC/management interfaces, web UIs, SNMP) until patched.
- Track follow-ups in the site CVE index and the security RSS feed.
Related reading
- Site CVE index — every CVE we track, split by year
- Security hub — recent NetApp advisories and what changed
- Security hardening baseline — applies to NetApp management planes generally
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2016