VDB
CVE-2017-9461
CVE-2017-9461
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM
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.
EPSS 4.23% · 90.7th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
4.23%
90.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | samba | 2:4.1.17+dfsg-4ubuntu2, 0, 2:4.1.20+dfsg-1ubuntu2 |
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | samba | 2:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.3, 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.3 |
Timeline
- Jun 6, 2017 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 29, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 8, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 10, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 16, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9461 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3348-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9461 third-party-advisory