CVE-2012-0817
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.47% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-01-30 17:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 18:38Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-01-19
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3c4e9aa6dd460b1667ea8c7e9bf4edc460aafb86b06604d0fcf3199dd2bb4c90
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com47763http://secunia.com/advisories/47763
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2012:0515http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00014.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2012:0502http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00008.html
- www.samba.orghttp://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html
- www.samba.orghttp://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-1098http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-February/072930.html
- secunia.com48879http://secunia.com/advisories/48879
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- samba Fixed in 2:3.6.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- samba Fixed in 2:3.6.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- samba Fixed in 2:3.6.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.