CVE-2018-16860

NameCVE-2018-16860
DescriptionA flaw was found in samba's Heimdal KDC implementation, versions 4.8.x up to, excluding 4.8.12, 4.9.x up to, excluding 4.9.8 and 4.10.x up to, excluding 4.10.3, when used in AD DC mode. A man in the middle attacker could use this flaw to intercept the request to the KDC and replace the user name (principal) in the request with any desired user name (principal) that exists in the KDC effectively obtaining a ticket for that principal.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1788-1, DSA-4443-1, DSA-4455-1, ELA-797-1
Debian Bugs928966

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
heimdal (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.6~rc2+dfsg-9+deb8u3fixed
stretch (security)7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u4fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)7.5.0+dfsg-3+deb10u2fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye7.7.0+dfsg-2+deb11u3fixed
bookworm7.8.git20221117.28daf24+dfsg-2fixed
sid, trixie7.8.git20221117.28daf24+dfsg-8fixed
samba (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u16fixed
stretch (security)2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u4fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u5fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2:4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u5fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1fixed
trixie2:4.21.2+dfsg-3fixed
sid2:4.21.2+dfsg-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
heimdalsourcejessie1.6~rc2+dfsg-9+deb8u3ELA-797-1
heimdalsourcestretch7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u3DSA-4455-1
heimdalsource(unstable)7.5.0+dfsg-3928966
sambasourcewheezy(not affected)
sambasourcejessie2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u13DLA-1788-1
sambasourcestretch2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u2DSA-4443-1
sambasource(unstable)2:4.9.5+dfsg-4

Notes

[jessie] - heimdal <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16860.html
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/c6257cc2c842c0faaeb4ef34e33890ee88c4cbba
[wheezy] - samba <not-affected> (samba cant run as AD DC on 3.6)

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