https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:39:40 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2017-9461 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2017-9461 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/usn-3348-1 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: samba, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: samba</p> <p>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)</p> <p>In addition, this update fixes a regression introduced by USN-3267-1 that caused Samba to incorrectly handle non-wide symlinks to directories.</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: samba, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: samba</p> <p>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)</p> <p>In addition, this update fixes a regression introduced by USN-3267-1 that caused Samba to incorrectly handle non-wide symlinks to directories.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/usn-3348-1