CVE-2012-0817
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2:3.6.3-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2:3.6.3-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2:3.6.3-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2:3.6.3-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2:3.6.3-1 |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-February/072930.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00014.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47763
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48879
- http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html
- http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0817
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.