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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.

 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/usn-3348-1 USN-3348-1 — samba vulnerability 2026-09-29T07:39:40.037093+00:00

Affected: Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: samba, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: samba

It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled dangling symlinks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-9461)

In addition, this update fixes a regression introduced by USN-3267-1 that caused Samba to incorrectly handle non-wide symlinks to directories.