CVE-2012-0817 (GCVE-0-2012-0817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-01-30 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:38
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/47763 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/48879 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2012-01-29 00:00
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