Unscored severity · published Jan 30, 2012
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
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CVSS
3.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.5% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SA
Samba · Samba
3.6.0; 3.6.1; 3.6.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0817
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-0817
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-February/072930.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00008.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00014.html
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/47763
secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/48879
www.samba.org
http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html
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