| Name | CVE-2017-9461 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1754-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 864291 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| samba (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u16 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u4 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2:4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u5 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 2:4.21.2+dfsg-3 | fixed |
| sid | 2:4.21.2+dfsg-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| samba | source | jessie | 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u12 | | DLA-1754-1 | |
| samba | source | (unstable) | 2:4.5.6+dfsg-1 | | | 864291 |
Notes
[wheezy] - samba <no-dsa> (Minor, non reproducible issue)
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572