CVE-2017-9461

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

4.032

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix (USN-3348-1) samba_4.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu5.7_i386.deb	Linux
SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix (USN-3348-1) samba_4.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu5.7_amd64.deb	Linux
SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix (USN-3348-1) samba_4.5.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.17.04.3_i386.deb	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234