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CVE-2017-9461
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-06-06T21:29:00.313 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:28:08.827

Summary

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.

Affected products

samba — samba

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References

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