Information disclosure in Samba

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 making many connection requests.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.035 (88.6th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2012-0817: held from 0.035 to 0.035.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.035 · newest: 0.035 · change: -0.001

Affected products

  • Samba — versions 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

References