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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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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:11:01.276Z

Reserved: 2017-06-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-9461

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-06T21:29:00.313

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-9461

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9461 - Bugzilla

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