medium
6.8
CWE
835
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2017-9461

First published: Tue Jun 06 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Samba Samba<=4.4.9
Samba Samba=4.5.0
Samba Samba=4.5.1
Samba Samba=4.5.2
Samba Samba=4.5.3
Samba Samba=4.5.4
Samba Samba=4.5.5
Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop=7.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server=7.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus=7.4
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus=7.6
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus=7.4
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus=7.5
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus=7.6
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus=7.6
Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation=7.0
Debian Debian Linux=8.0
redhat/samba<4.4.10
4.4.10
redhat/samba<4.5.6
4.5.6

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