CVE-2012-0817

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-01-29
CWE:
CWE-401
Bugzilla:
785746: CVE-2012-0817 samba: DoS (smbd crash) due memory leak in management of fds for socket connections

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2012-0817 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. This issue did not affect the version of samba3x as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue did not affect the version of samba4 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.3
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 samba Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 samba4 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 samba Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 samba3x Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 samba Not affected

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