CVE-2017-9461
A flaw was found in the way Samba handled dangling symlinks. An authenticated malicious Samba client could use this flaw to cause the smbd daemon to enter an infinite loop and use an excessive amount of CPU and memory.
Find out more about CVE-2017-9461 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v3 metrics
| CVSS3 Base Score | 6.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster 3.2 Samba on RHEL-7 (samba) | RHSA-2017:2338 | 2017-08-01 |
| Red Hat Gluster 3.3 Samba on RHEL-6 (samba) | RHSA-2017:2778 | 2017-09-21 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (samba) | RHSA-2017:1950 | 2017-08-01 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | samba | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | samba4 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | samba | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | samba3x | Not affected |
