CVE-2017-9461

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9461
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9461.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-9461
Downstream
Published
2017-06-06T21:29:00.313Z
Modified
2025-11-14T05:22:45.878402Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

smbd in Samba before 4.4.10 and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 has a denial of service vulnerability (fdopenatomic infinite loop with high CPU usage and memory consumption) due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/samba-team/samba

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/samba-team/samba
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
3da5d752a987ec1e60d7e773dfe44d38a91d8776
Last affected
49c473f6fe978d7f0a5d32df92e212380490a566
Last affected
548e16ca617ca8d5ad2171907c2a2cc8bc15f85c
Last affected
6ead5258a717d56794f25b91254bbe0ad737f45d
Last affected
916fab083a8cb5c10365da7f3a85d0bbfde4a30e
Last affected
daef395600e23dfda782c556a9e7ef06e395c557
Last affected
f00d8b0daf1172a60e29b28b7e57ffa716d30259

Affected versions

ldb-1.*

ldb-1.1.0
ldb-1.1.10
ldb-1.1.11
ldb-1.1.12
ldb-1.1.13
ldb-1.1.14
ldb-1.1.15
ldb-1.1.16
ldb-1.1.17
ldb-1.1.18
ldb-1.1.19
ldb-1.1.2
ldb-1.1.20
ldb-1.1.21
ldb-1.1.22
ldb-1.1.23
ldb-1.1.24
ldb-1.1.25
ldb-1.1.26
ldb-1.1.27
ldb-1.1.3
ldb-1.1.4
ldb-1.1.5
ldb-1.1.6
ldb-1.1.8
ldb-1.1.9

samba-4.*

samba-4.0.0alpha10
samba-4.0.0alpha11
samba-4.0.0alpha13
samba-4.0.0alpha14
samba-4.0.0alpha15
samba-4.0.0alpha16
samba-4.0.0alpha17
samba-4.0.0alpha18
samba-4.0.0alpha19
samba-4.0.0alpha20
samba-4.0.0alpha21
samba-4.0.0alpha6
samba-4.0.0alpha7
samba-4.0.0alpha8
samba-4.0.0alpha9
samba-4.0.0beta1
samba-4.0.0beta2
samba-4.0.0beta3
samba-4.0.0beta4
samba-4.0.0beta5
samba-4.0.0beta6
samba-4.0.0beta7
samba-4.0.0beta8
samba-4.0.0rc1
samba-4.2.0rc1
samba-4.3.0rc1
samba-4.4.0
samba-4.4.0rc1
samba-4.4.0rc2
samba-4.4.0rc3
samba-4.4.0rc4
samba-4.4.0rc5
samba-4.4.1
samba-4.4.2
samba-4.4.3
samba-4.4.4
samba-4.4.5
samba-4.4.6
samba-4.4.7
samba-4.4.8
samba-4.4.9
samba-4.5.0
samba-4.5.0rc1
samba-4.5.0rc2
samba-4.5.0rc3
samba-4.5.1
samba-4.5.2
samba-4.5.3

talloc-1.*

talloc-1.3.1

talloc-2.*

talloc-2.0.0
talloc-2.0.1
talloc-2.0.7
talloc-2.0.8
talloc-2.1.0
talloc-2.1.1
talloc-2.1.2
talloc-2.1.3
talloc-2.1.4
talloc-2.1.5
talloc-2.1.6
talloc-2.1.7
talloc-2.1.8

tdb-1.*

tdb-1.1.5
tdb-1.2.0
tdb-1.2.1
tdb-1.2.10
tdb-1.2.11
tdb-1.2.12
tdb-1.2.13
tdb-1.3.0
tdb-1.3.1
tdb-1.3.10
tdb-1.3.2
tdb-1.3.3
tdb-1.3.4
tdb-1.3.5
tdb-1.3.6
tdb-1.3.7
tdb-1.3.8
tdb-1.3.9

tevent-0.*

tevent-0.9.11
tevent-0.9.12
tevent-0.9.13
tevent-0.9.14
tevent-0.9.15
tevent-0.9.16
tevent-0.9.17
tevent-0.9.18
tevent-0.9.19
tevent-0.9.20
tevent-0.9.21
tevent-0.9.22
tevent-0.9.23
tevent-0.9.24
tevent-0.9.25
tevent-0.9.26
tevent-0.9.27
tevent-0.9.28
tevent-0.9.29
tevent-0.9.8

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9461.json"