CVE-2012-0817

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2012-0817 · Published 30/01/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-0817 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting samba (samba).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.5%, higher than 89.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
samba samba	`= 3.6.0= 3.6.1= 3.6.2`	No fix yet

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.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-February/072930.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00008.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00014.html
secunia.com/advisories/47763 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/48879
samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html
samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817 · Patch

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

samba

= 3.6.0= 3.6.1= 3.6.2

No fix yet

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