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 consumption) due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks.

• CWE-835

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/864291Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/864291Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.htmlThird Party Advisory

Published

Jun 6, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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