CVE-2017-9461 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778 https://bugs.debian.org/864291 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572 https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5