Upstream information

CVE-2017-9461 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
  • ctdb >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • ctdb-tests >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • libsmbclient >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • libsmbclient-devel >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • libwbclient >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • libwbclient-devel >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-client >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-client-libs >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-common >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-common-libs >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-common-tools >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-dc >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-dc-libs >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-devel >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-krb5-printing >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-libs >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-pidl >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-python >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-test >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-test-libs >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-vfs-glusterfs >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-winbind >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-winbind-clients >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-winbind-krb5-locator >= 4.6.2-8.el7
  • samba-winbind-modules >= 4.6.2-8.el7
Patchnames:
RHSA-2017:1950


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS samba Ignore
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL samba Affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 samba Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 samba Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 samba Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP1 samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2 samba Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 samba Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS samba Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS samba Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 samba Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS samba Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 samba Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS samba Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS samba Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 samba Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 samba Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 samba Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 samba Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 samba Ignore
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 samba Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 samba Ignore
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 samba Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jun 7 01:28:48 2017
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 30 17:34:39 2023