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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DLA-1754-1 | samba security update |
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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. |
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USN-3348-1 | Samba vulnerability |
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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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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-06-06T21:29:00.313
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-9461


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