CVE-2011-0719

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Samba 3.x before 3.3.15, 3.4.x before 3.4.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.7 does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FD_SET macro, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption, and infinite loop or daemon crash) by opening a large number of files, related to (1) Winbind or (2) smbd.

Affected products

Samba: 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.2-a, 3.0.2a, 3.0.3 (+121)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056229.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056241.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130835366526620&w=2
http://samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2011-0719.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43482
http://secunia.com/advisories/43503
http://secunia.com/advisories/43512
http://secunia.com/advisories/43517
http://secunia.com/advisories/43556
http://secunia.com/advisories/43557
http://secunia.com/advisories/43843

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