CVE-2012-0870: Rim Blackberry Playbook OS

High severity, CVSS 7.9. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in process.c in smbd in Samba 3.0, as used in the file-sharing service on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet before 2.0.0.7971 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a Batched (aka AndX) request that triggers infinite recursion.

Affected products

• Rim Blackberry Playbook OS: up to and including 2.0; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.5 only; version 1.0.6 only; version 1.0.7 only; …
• Rim Blackberry Playbook Tablet: affected versions not specified
• Samba Samba: version 3.0.0 only

Published 2012-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.