Potential SMB services disruption after installation of Microsoft patch KB3002657-v1 on Windows 2003 Domain Controllers

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Advisory ID: NTAP-20150313-0001 Version: 4.0 Last updated: 03/31/2015 Status: Final. CVEs: CVE-2015-0005

Summary

Microsoft has released MS15-027 to patch a security issue related to NETLOGON that could allow for spoofing attacks to be executed. NetApp has received reports of SMB service disruptions on Storage Products related to the installation of the first version of this patch on Windows Server 2003 Domain Controllers. Systems impacted by this patch exhibit a denial of the client logon when using NTLMv2 for communication with the Domain Controllers. This behavior is applicable to SMBv1, SMBv2, and SMBv3 clients. Carefully review the known issues associated with the Microsoft security patch. It is always recommended that the impact of any patch be determined in a test environment prior to production deployment.

Impact

SMB services disruption has been reported by some customers after installation of the patch on their Microsoft Domain Controllers.

Vulnerability Scoring Details

CVE Score Vector
CVE-2015-0005 5.4 (MEDIUM) CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation and Public Announcements

NetApp is aware of public discussion of this vulnerability.

References

Affected Products

None.

Products Not Affected

  • 7-Mode Transition Tool
  • ATTO FibreBridge
  • Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for Linux 7.3 and above
  • Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for VMware vSphere 9.5 and above
  • Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) for Windows 7.3 and above
  • Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware
  • Brocade Network Advisor Software
  • Clustered Data ONTAP
  • Clustered Data ONTAP Antivirus Connector
  • Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
  • E-Series SANtricity Management Plug-ins (VMware vCenter)
  • E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x
  • E-Series SANtricity Storage Manager
  • E-Series SANtricity Web Services (REST API) for Web Services Proxy
  • Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
  • FAS/AFF BIOS
  • FAS/AFF Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
  • Host Utilities - SAN for Linux
  • Host Utilities - SAN for Windows
  • MetroCluster Tiebreaker for clustered Data ONTAP
  • NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
  • NetApp Cloud Backup OST Plug-in (formerly AltaVault OST Plug-in)
  • NetApp Converged Systems Advisor Agent
  • NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
  • NetApp HCI Compute Node BIOS
  • NetApp Manageability SDK
  • NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI
  • NetApp Plug-in for Symantec NetBackup
  • NetApp SANtricity Cloud Connector
  • NetApp SANtricity SMI-S Provider
  • NetApp SMI-S Provider
  • NetApp Service Level Manager
  • NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
  • NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
  • NetApp SteelStore Cloud Integrated Storage
  • NetApp Storage Encryption
  • NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above
  • ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
  • OnCommand API Services
  • OnCommand Cloud Manager
  • OnCommand Insight
  • OnCommand System Manager 9.x
  • OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package)
  • OnCommand Workflow Automation
  • Open Systems SnapVault Agent
  • RAID Controller CTS2600 Legacy Engenio
  • Service Processor
  • Single Mailbox Recovery
  • Snap Creator Framework
  • SnapCenter
  • SnapDrive for Unix
  • SnapDrive for Windows
  • SnapManager for Exchange
  • SnapManager for Hyper-V
  • SnapManager for MS SQL
  • SnapManager for Oracle
  • SnapManager for SAP
  • SnapManager for Sharepoint
  • Storage Replication Adapter for Clustered Data ONTAP for VMware vSphere 7.2 and above
  • Storage Replication Adapter for Clustered Data ONTAP for Windows 7.2 and above
  • Storage Services Connector
  • StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
  • StorageGRID Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
  • StorageGRID Webscale NAS Bridge
  • StorageGRID9 (9.x and prior)
  • System Setup
  • Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere 7.2 and above

Software Versions and Fixes

None.

This section will be updated as patches are released.

Workarounds

No NetApp software fixes are expected to address this issue. This issue is resolved by applying the version of the Microsoft security patch that was published on March 16, 2015 and identified as 3002657-v2 to Windows 2003 Domain Controllers.

For systems where this cannot be immediately applied the following workarounds are also known to address the behavior.

NOTE: Choose only one of the following options:

1) Remove Microsoft patch KB3002657-v1 from Windows Domain Controllers.

OR

2) Utilize Kerberos authentication mode.

OR

3) Utilize NTLMv1 authentication mode.

The following errors may be observed in Data ONTAP after installation of the Microsoft patch on Windows Server 2003 Domain Controllers.

1) Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode with 'options cifs.trace_login on ' :

AUTH: Login attempt by user rejected by the domain controller with error 0xc000006d: STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE.
[netapp1:auth.dc.trace.DCConnection.statusMsg:info]: AUTH: TraceDC- attempting authentication with domain controller DC1 .
[netapp1:auth.trace.authenticateUser.loginRejected:info]: AUTH: Login attempt by user rejected by the domain controller with error 0xc000006d: STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE.

2) Clustered Data ONTAP secd logs:

[kern_secd:info:4246] | [000.002.682] ERR : Error: User authentication procedure failed
[kern_secd:info:4246] | [000.002.693] ERR : [ 0 ms] Login attempt by local user '\user@domain' using NTLMv2 style security
[kern_secd:info:4246] | [000.002.714] ERR : [ 0] Login attempt by domain user 'domain\user@domain' using NTLMv2 style security
[kern_secd:info:4246] | [000.002.724] ERR : [ 0] Using a cached connection to dc.domain.local
[kern_secd:info:4246] | [000.002.734] ERR : [ 2] Authentication failed. (Status: 0xc000006d)

Obtaining Software Fixes

Software fixes will be made available through the NetApp Support website in the Software Download section.

https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/downloads/

Customers who do not have access to the Support website should contact Technical Support at the number below to obtain the patches.

Contact Information

Check http://mysupport.netapp.com for further updates.
For questions, contact NetApp at:

Technical Support
mysupport.netapp.com
1 888 4 NETAPP (1 888 463 8277) (U.S. and Canada)
+00 800 44 638277 (EMEA/Europe)
+800 800 80 800 (Asia/Pacific)

Status of This Notice

Final.

This advisory should be considered the single source of current, up-to-date, authorized and accurate information from NetApp regarding Full Support products and versions.

This advisory is posted at the following link:
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/NTAP-20150313-0001

Revision History

Revision # Date Comments
1.0 20150313 Initial Public Release
2.0 20150316 Updated with Windows Server 2003 specific patch 3002657-v2 information
3.0 20150317 Updated with clarifications regarding the 3002657-v2 patch as a fix
4.0 20150331 Final status

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