CVE-2012-0817: Samba

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: version 3.6.0 only; version 3.6.1 only; version 3.6.2 only

Published 2012-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.