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MiracleLinux 7 : samba-4.6.2-8.el7 (AXSA:2017-2069:04)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 289602

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2017-2069:04 advisory.

 Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
 CVE-2017-9461 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/8509

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 289602

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2017-2069.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-python, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-krb5-printing, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ctdb-tests, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-common-tools, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-winbind-modules, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-client-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-winbind-clients, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-common-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9461