Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting samba package, versions <2:4.5.6+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SAMBA-357271
  • published6 Jun 2017
  • disclosed6 Jun 2017

Introduced: 6 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9461  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable samba to version 2:4.5.6+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba package and not the samba package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.