USN-3348-1

Advisory lineage Upstream: 2 Downstream: 0
Published: 05 Jul 2017, 17:53
Last modified:22 Apr 2026, 09:36

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Jul 2017, 17:53
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2026, 09:36
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

samba vulnerability It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled dangling symlinks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-9461) In addition, this update fixes a regression introduced by USN-3267-1 that caused Samba to incorrectly handle non-wide symlinks to directories.

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•samba

    < 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.9 | < 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.8

References (2)