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cve: "CVE-2017-9461"
severity: "LOW"
cvss: 3.1
epss: "4.2%"
vendor: "n/a"
kev: false
exploited: false
published: "2017-06-06 21:00:00"
tags: [cve, security, low]
source: tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier
exported: "2026-09-10T05:49:29+02:00"
---

# CVE-2017-9461

> 3.1 LOW

## Beschreibung

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.

## Referenzen

- <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338>
- <https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310>
- <https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572>
- <https://bugs.debian.org/864291>
- <https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html>

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_Exportiert aus dem [tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier](https://tsecurity.de/cve?cve=CVE-2017-9461) · Datenquellen: EUVD (ENISA), NVD, OSV, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Exploit-DB, BSI BITS_