Buffer overflow in Samba

CVE-2011-0719

Samba 3.x before 3.3.15, 3.4.x before 3.4.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.7 does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FD_SET macro, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption, and infinite loop or daemon crash) by opening a large number of files, related to (1) Winbind or (2) smbd.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.046 (90.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Samba — versions 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References