CVE-2017-9461

samba: fd_open_atomic infinite loop due to wrong handling of dangling symlinks

Published Jun 6, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 4.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
smbd in Samba before 4.4.10 and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 has a denial of service vulnerability (fd_open_atomic infinite loop with high CPU usage and memory consumption) due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1754-1 samba security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-18394 smbd in Samba before 4.4.10 and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 has a denial of service vulnerability (fd_open_atomic infinite loop with high CPU usage and memory consumption) due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3348-1 Samba vulnerability
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