SB2012013001 - Memory leak in Samba
Published: January 30, 2012 Updated: April 29, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012013001
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0817)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within 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. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-February/072930.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00014.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47763
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48879
- http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html
- http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817