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CVE-2010-1642

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1642 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Samba smbd service, affecting versions before 3.4.8 and 3.5.2. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending a specially crafted Session Setup AndX request with a malformed security blob length. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to cause a process crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.4.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.2aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.0.2a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0358 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-1642

samba: denial of service vulnerabilities

May 12, 2010

References

git.samba.org
samba.org / samba/history/samba-3.4.8.html
samba.org / samba/history/samba-3.5.2.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.samba.org / show_bug.cgi
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2010-1642
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/40097
Exploit
stratsec.net / Research/Advisories/Samba-Multiple-DoS-Vulnerabilities-%28SS-2010-005%29
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1933