DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9461

DEBIAN-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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	samba	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	samba	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	samba	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	samba	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Jun 6, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9461 advisory

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