CVE-2012-0817

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-01-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

Samba: 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2

References

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

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