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CVE-2017-12163

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An information leak flaw was found in the way SMB1 protocol was implemented by Samba before 4.4.16, 4.5.x before 4.5.14, and 4.6.x before 4.6.8. A malicious client could use this flaw to dump server memory contents to a file on the samba share or to a shared printer, though the exact area of server memory cannot be controlled by the attacker.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
• Red Hat, Inc. Gluster Storage for RHEL 6: 3.0
• Samba: before 4.4.16; from 4.5.0 before 4.5.14; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.8 — fixed in 4.4.16, 4.5.14, 4.6.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Samba 4.4.16, 4.5.14, 4.6.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100925
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039401
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2789
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2790
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2791
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2858
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12163
• https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbns03775en_us
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20170921-0001/
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03817en_us
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3983
• https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-12163.html

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