CVE-2017-9461

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 7
Modified
Published: 06 Jun 2017, 21:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 17:11

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
38/100
CVSS Score
6.8 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
3.38% LOW
3% probability -0.65%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

06 Jun 2017, 21:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 17:11
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 3.38%• Percentile: 88%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-835•Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

    The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_desktop

    7.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server

    7.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server_aus

    7.4 | 7.6

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server_eus

    7.4 | 7.5 | 7.6

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server_tus

    7.6

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_workstation

    7.0

  • samba•samba

    ≤ 4.4.9 | 4.5.0 | 4.5.1 | 4.5.2 | 4.5.3 | 4.5.4 | 4.5.5

References (8)