Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting samba-common package, versions <0:4.6.2-8.el7
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- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed16 Feb 2017
Introduced: 16 Feb 2017
CVE-2017-9461 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 samba-common to version 0:4.6.2-8.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:1950.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba-common package and not the samba-common package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL: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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455
- 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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9461
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950
- https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310