CVE-2017-9461

samba: fd_open_atomic infinite loop due to wrong handling of dangling symlinks

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 16, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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