CVE-2012-0817

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.

• CWE-200

• 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/47763Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48879
• http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html
• http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817Patch, Vendor Advisory
• 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/47763Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48879
• http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.3.html
• http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-0817Patch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Jan 30, 2012

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

• How Strix found a critical auth bypass in etcdStrix autonomously discovered a critical authentication bypass in etcd, later designated CVE-2026-33413.
• Autonomous PentestingAI agents that find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities like this one across your applications.
• PR ReviewsPentest every pull request so vulnerable code is caught before it ships to production.
• AI Penetration TestingHow AI-driven penetration testing continuously covers your attack surface.

• CVE-2012-0811Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Postfix Admin (aka…
• CVE-2012-0812PostfixAdmin 2.3.4 has multiple XSS vulnerabilities6.1
• CVE-2012-0813Wicd before 1.7.1 saves sensitive information in log files i…
• CVE-2012-0814The auth_parse_options function in auth-options.c in sshd in…6.5
• CVE-2012-0815The headerVerifyInfo function in lib/header.c in RPM before …
• CVE-2012-0816Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultID…
• CVE-2012-0818RESTEasy before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitr…
• CVE-2012-0819Unspecified vulnerability in Joomla! 1.6.x and 1.7.x before …
• CVE-2012-0820Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Joomla! 1.6.x an…
• CVE-2012-0821Unspecified vulnerability in Joomla! 1.6.x and 1.7.x before …
• CVE-2012-0822Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Joomla! 1.6 and …
• CVE-2012-0823VP8 Codec SDK (libvpx) before 1.0.0 "Duclair" allows remote …