Samba 3.6.x < 3.6.3 Denial of Service

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6299

Synopsis

The remote Samba server is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to its banner, the version of Samba 3.6.x running on the remote host is earlier than 3.6.3. Errors exist in the files 'source3/lib/substitute.c' and 'source3/smbd/server.c' that leak small amounts of memory when processing every connection attempt.

An attacker can continually make connections to the server and cause a denial of service attack against the affected smbd service.

Solution

Either apply one of the patches referenced in the project's advisory or upgrade to 3.6.3 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 6299

Family: Samba

Published: 2/1/2012

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 57752

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:samba:samba

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0817

BID: 51713

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