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CVE-2012-0817
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…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 47763 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:0515 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:0502 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-1098 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 48879 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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