CVE-2017-9461

Summary

CVECVE-2017-9461
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-06-06 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:50:00 UTC
Descriptionsmbd 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 And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 7.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 7.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 7.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 7.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus 7.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 7.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 7.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.0 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.1 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.2 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.3 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.4 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.5 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.0 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.1 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.2 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.3 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.4 All All All
Application Samba Samba 4.5.5 All All All
Application Samba Samba All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
#864291 - samba: CVE-2017-9461: infinite loop on bad-symlink resolution - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
git.samba.org - samba.git/commit CONFIRM git.samba.org Vendor Advisory
Samba CVE-2017-9461 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
git.samba.org - samba.git/commit git.samba.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1754-1] samba security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Bug 12572 – fd_open_atomic() can loop indefinitely when trying to open an invalid symlink with O_CREAT CONFIRM bugzilla.samba.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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