CVE-2017-9461

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455

https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-06

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H