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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 consumpti…

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
SambaSamba
through 4.4.9
Versions 4.5.0, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Version 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Version 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Aus
Versions 7.4, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Eus
Versions 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Tus
Version 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Version 7.0
DebianDebian Linux
Version 8.0

Weakness classification

References