CVE-2012-0817
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Information disclosure
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47763Advisory
- 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/48879
- http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html