CVE-2017-9461

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 4.19%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-06-06 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE

CVE-2017-9461

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

4.19%

Original Filing — NVD Description

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.