vulnerability
Samba CVE-2017-9461: Denial of service vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jun 6, 2017 | Apr 30, 2018 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 6, 2017
Added
Apr 30, 2018
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
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.
Solutions
samba-upgrade-4_4_10samba-upgrade-4_5_6
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