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
redhat/samba<4.4.10
4.4.10
redhat/samba<4.5.6
4.5.6
Samba<=4.4.9
Samba=4.5.0
Samba=4.5.1
Samba=4.5.2
Samba=4.5.3
Samba=4.5.4
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

Remedy

https://bugs.debian.org/864291

Remedy

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572

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