CVE-2017-9461 (GCVE-0-2017-9461)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-06 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugs.debian.org/864291 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2017-06-06 00:00
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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