CVE-2012-0817

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-0817
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-01-30 17:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMemory 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Samba Samba 3.6.0 All All All
Application Samba Samba 3.6.1 All All All
Application Samba Samba 3.6.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: samba-3.6.3-78.fc16 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Samba - Security Announcement Archive af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.samba.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0515-1: critical: Security update for S af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0502-1: critical: Security update for S af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Samba - Release Notes Archive af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.samba.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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