CVE-2017-9461
samba - security update
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.4%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-9461
To remediate CVE-2017-9461, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/samba—upgrade to 2:4.5.6+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u12 or later
Is CVE-2017-9461 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2:4.5.6+dfsg-1
- from 0, < 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u12
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |