CVE-2012-0817

N/A Unknown

Published: January 30, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-February/072930.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00008.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00014.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/47763

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/48879

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-February/072930.html