CVE-2017-9461

NameCVE-2017-9461
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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1754-1
Debian Bugs864291

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
samba (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1fixed
trixie2:4.21.2+dfsg-3fixed
sid2:4.21.2+dfsg-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
sambasourcejessie2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u12DLA-1754-1
sambasource(unstable)2:4.5.6+dfsg-1864291

Notes

[wheezy] - samba <no-dsa> (Minor, non reproducible issue)
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572

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