Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting libsmbclient package, versions <0:4.6.2-8.el7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-LIBSMBCLIENT-2515891
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • 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 Oracle:7 libsmbclient to version 0:4.6.2-8.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-1950.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libsmbclient package and not the libsmbclient package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 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.