CVE-2017-12163

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

An information leak flaw was found in the way SMB1 protocol was implemented by Samba before 4.4.16, 4.5.x before 4.5.14, and 4.6.x before 4.6.8. A malicious client could use this flaw to dump server memory contents to a file on the samba share or to a shared printer, though the exact area of server memory cannot be controlled by the attacker.

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
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2:4.6.7+dfsg-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2:4.6.7+dfsg-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`2:4.6.7+dfsg-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`2:4.6.7+dfsg-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2:4.6.7+dfsg-2`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.