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.
Published: 2017-06-06
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: 3.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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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Debian Debian Linux
Redhat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Desktop Enterprise Linux Server Enterprise Linux Server Aus Enterprise Linux Server Eus Enterprise Linux Server Tus Enterprise Linux Workstation Storage
Samba Samba
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2017-06-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9461

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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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