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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-9461: ELSA-2017-1950: samba security, bug fix, and enhancement update (LOW) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-9461: ELSA-2017-1950: samba security, bug fix, and enhancement update (LOW) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/16/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/08/2017
Modified
08/06/2024

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libsmbclient
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libsmbclient-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libwbclient
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libwbclient-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-client
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-client-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-common-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-common-tools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-dc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-dc-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-krb5-printing
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-pidl
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-python
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-test
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-test-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-vfs-glusterfs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-winbind
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-winbind-clients
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-winbind-krb5-locator
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-samba-winbind-modules

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