CVE-2012-0817 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Samba

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information ExposureCWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime7 documents6 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
7.5%
top 8.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
SambaDebian Samba
Timeline
PublishedJan 30
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Memory leak in smbd in Samba 3.6.x before 3.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by making many connection requests.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/samba< samba 2:3.6.3-1 (bookworm)
▶Debiansamba/samba< 2:3.6.3-1+3
▶NVDsamba/samba3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2+2

Patches

Patch: www.samba.org ↗Patch: www.samba.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-mx9r-cchq-6rp6: Memory leak in smbd in Samba 3↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2012-0817: Memory leak in smbd in Samba 3↗2012-01-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
samba: DoS (smbd crash) due memory leak in management of fds for socket connections↗2012-01-29
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Debian
CVE-2012-0817: samba - Memory leak in smbd in Samba 3.6.x before 3.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause...↗2012
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-0817 samba: DoS (smbd crash) due memory leak in management of fds for socket connections↗2012-01-30
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Bugzilla
CVE-2012-0817 samba: DoS (smbd crash) due memory leak in management of fds for socket connections [fedora-16]↗2012-01-30
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