CVE-2012-1182

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 74.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-04-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The RPC code generator in Samba 3.x before 3.4.16, 3.5.x before 3.5.14, and 3.6.x before 3.6.4 does not implement validation of an array length in a manner consistent with validation of array memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC call.

Affected products

Samba: through 3.4.15; 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.2-a, 3.0.2a, 3.0.3 (+137)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078258.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078726.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078836.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080567.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00014.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133951282306605&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134323086902585&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/48751

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