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CVE-2013-4124

68
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4124 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the read_nttrans_ea_list function within Samba's smbd component, affecting versions 3.x before 3.5.22, 3.6.x before 3.6.17, and 4.x before 4.0.8. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending a specially crafted packet, leading to excessive memory consumption. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via Metasploit and ExploitDB, and its EPSS score of 0.828830000 suggests a high likelihood of exploitation. Despite this, there is no recorded community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
12.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
69.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27778 · Aug 22, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6901 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba3x-0:3.6.6-0.136.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba-0:3.0.33-3.40.el5_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: samba-0:3.6.9-164.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: samba4-0:4.0.0-58.el6.rc4
View patch
fedoravendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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susevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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ubuntuvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4124Moderate

samba: DoS via integer overflow when reading an EA list

Aug 5, 2013

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2013-08/0028.html
ftp.samba.org / pub/samba/patches/security/samba-4.0.7-CVE-2013-4124.patch
Patch
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113591.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/114011.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136864.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00012.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00015.html
Vendor Advisory
marc.info
osvdb.org / 95969
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1310.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1542.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1543.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0305.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/54519
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201502-15.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/86185
mandriva.com / security/advisories
samba.org / samba/history/samba-3.5.22.html
Vendor Advisory
samba.org / samba/history/samba-3.6.17.html
Vendor Advisory
samba.org / samba/history/samba-4.0.8.html
Vendor Advisory
samba.org / samba/security/CVE-2013-4124
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1028882
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1966-1
Vendor Advisory