CVE-2017-9461
N/A
Published: June 6, 2017 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:28 AM UTC
8 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxEnterprise Linux DesktopEnterprise Linux Server
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.debian.org/864291x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835
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