THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-0870
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2012-0870

Samba vulnerability

CVSS
7.9
EPSS
6.5%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Samba
Affected product
Samba
CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2012-02-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable from an adjacent network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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