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Samba Memory Leak Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability

🗓️ 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AGType 
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Samba Memory Leak Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability. Impact: Exhausts memory, denying access to legitimate users. Affects Samba versions 3.6.0 through 3.6.

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:samba:samba";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.103411");
  script_version("2025-09-17T05:39:26+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-17 05:39:26 +0000 (Wed, 17 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-02-09 10:12:15 +0100 (Thu, 09 Feb 2012)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-0817");
  script_name("Samba Memory Leak Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
  script_dependencies("smb_nativelanman.nasl", "gb_samba_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("samba/smb_or_ssh/detected");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51713");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Samba is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"A local attacker can exploit this issue to exhaust available memory,
  denying access to legitimate users.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"The vulnerability affects Samba versions 3.6.0 through 3.6.2.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Updates are available. Please see the references for details.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");

if( isnull( port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
  exit( 0 );

vers = infos["version"];
loc = infos["location"];

if( version_in_range( version:vers, test_version:"3.6", test_version2:"3.6.2" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"3.6.3", install_path:loc );
  security_message( port:port, data:report );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );

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17 Sep 2025 00:00Current
8.1High risk
Vulners AI Score8.1
CVSS 25
EPSS0.03532
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