CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-9461: Low: samba security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:1950)
7
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
06/06/2017
08/29/2019
08/28/2019
05/25/2023
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.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-libsmbclient
- centos-upgrade-libsmbclient-devel
- centos-upgrade-libwbclient
- centos-upgrade-libwbclient-devel
- centos-upgrade-samba
- centos-upgrade-samba-client
- centos-upgrade-samba-client-libs
- centos-upgrade-samba-common
- centos-upgrade-samba-common-libs
- centos-upgrade-samba-common-tools
- centos-upgrade-samba-dc
- centos-upgrade-samba-dc-libs
- centos-upgrade-samba-debuginfo
- centos-upgrade-samba-devel
- centos-upgrade-samba-krb5-printing
- centos-upgrade-samba-libs
- centos-upgrade-samba-pidl
- centos-upgrade-samba-python
- centos-upgrade-samba-test
- centos-upgrade-samba-test-libs
- centos-upgrade-samba-vfs-glusterfs
- centos-upgrade-samba-winbind
- centos-upgrade-samba-winbind-clients
- centos-upgrade-samba-winbind-krb5-locator
- centos-upgrade-samba-winbind-modules
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