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Ubuntu: USN-3348-1 (CVE-2017-9461): Samba vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3348-1 (CVE-2017-9461): Samba vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/06/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-samba

References

  • USN-3267-1
  • USN-3348-1
  • CVE-2017-9461

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