CVE-2017-9461

CVE Details

Release Date:

2017-02-16

Description

smbd in Samba before 4.4.10 and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 has a denial ofservice vulnerability (fd_open_atomic infinite loop with high CPU usage and memory consumption) due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks.

See more information about CVE-2017-9461 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	7.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (samba)	ELSA-2017-1950	2017-08-07

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