CVE - CVE-2017-9461

CVE-ID
CVE-2017-9461	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:99455 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455 CONFIRM:https://bugs.debian.org/864291 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572 CONFIRM:https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310 MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20190409 [SECURITY] [DLA 1754-1] samba security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html REDHAT:RHSA-2017:1950 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950 REDHAT:RHSA-2017:2338 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338 REDHAT:RHSA-2017:2778 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20170606	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20170606)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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