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.
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Information
Published : 2017-06-06 21:29
Updated : 2025-04-20 01:37
NVD link : CVE-2017-9461
Mitre link : CVE-2017-9461
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-9461
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Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux_workstation
- enterprise_linux_server_aus
- enterprise_linux_desktop
- enterprise_linux_server
- enterprise_linux_server_eus
- enterprise_linux_server_tus
debian
- debian_linux
samba
- samba
CWE
CWE-835
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')