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DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9461
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...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
samba
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:4.5.6+dfsg-1"}]}]
Debian:13
samba
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:4.5.6+dfsg-1"}]}]
Debian:14
samba
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:4.5.6+dfsg-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org