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Fencer Vulns
high 8.5

CVE-2008-4314 json

smbd in Samba 3.0.29 through 3.2.4 might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary memory and cause a denial of service via crafted (1) tran…

published 2008-12-01 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4295

cvss
8.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

smbd in Samba 3.0.29 through 3.2.4 might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary memory and cause a denial of service via crafted (1) trans, (2) trans2, and (3) nttrans requests, related to a "cut&paste error" that causes an improper bounds check to be performed.

Patch / fix

  • samba Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:3.2.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4314

  • cifs-utils openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.13-1.3
  • samba openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10683-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11365-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-4314 updated

samba: arbitrary memory disclosure

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 8.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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