CVE-2012-0870
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.9 · Memory corruption
7.9CVSS HIGH
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in process.c in smbd in Samba 3.0, as used in the file-sharing service on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet before 2.0.0.7971 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a Batched (aka AndX) request that triggers infinite recursion.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorAdjacent
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)7%
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB29565 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB29565Patch
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00009.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/48116
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48186