CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-9461

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Jun 06, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Samba Samba * 4.4.9 (including)
Samba Samba 4.5.0 (including) 4.5.0 (including)
Samba Samba 4.5.1 (including) 4.5.1 (including)
Samba Samba 4.5.2 (including) 4.5.2 (including)
Samba Samba 4.5.3 (including) 4.5.3 (including)
Samba Samba 4.5.4 (including) 4.5.4 (including)
Samba Samba 4.5.5 (including) 4.5.5 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat samba-0:4.6.2-8.el7 *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 for RHEL 7 RedHat samba-0:4.6.3-4.el7rhgs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 6 RedHat libldb-0:1.1.29-1.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 6 RedHat libtalloc-0:2.1.9-1.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 6 RedHat libtdb-0:1.3.12-1.1.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 6 RedHat libtevent-0:0.9.31-1.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 6 RedHat samba-0:4.6.3-5.el6rhs *
Samba Ubuntu trusty *
Samba Ubuntu upstream *
Samba Ubuntu xenial *
Samba Ubuntu yakkety *

References