CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9461
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
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.
Affected configurations
• samba samba (<= 4.4.9)
• samba samba 4.5.0
• samba samba 4.5.1
• samba samba 4.5.2
• samba samba 4.5.3
• samba samba 4.5.4
• samba samba 4.5.5
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/864291 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310 git.samba.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/864291 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310 git.samba.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html Third Party Advisory