CVE-2012-0870

Severity: high (CVSS 7.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-02-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in process.c in smbd in Samba 3.0, as used in the file-sharing service on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet before 2.0.0.7971 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a Batched (aka AndX) request that triggers infinite recursion.

Affected products

Rim Blackberry Playbook Os: through 2.0; 1.0, 1.0.3, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.7.2942 (+3)
Rim Blackberry Playbook Tablet: all versions
Samba: 3.0.0

References

http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB29565
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00009.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/48116
http://secunia.com/advisories/48186
http://secunia.com/advisories/48844
http://secunia.com/advisories/48879
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1374-1

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