DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9461

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9461
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9461.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9461
Upstream
Published
2017-06-06T21:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:37Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / samba

Package

Name
samba
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/samba?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:4.5.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / samba

Package

Name
samba
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/samba?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:4.5.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / samba

Package

Name
samba
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/samba?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:4.5.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / samba

Package

Name
samba
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/samba?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:4.5.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}