A flaw was found in the way Samba handled dangling symlinks. An authenticated malicious Samba client could use this flaw to cause the smbd daemon to enter an infinite loop and use an excessive amount of CPU and memory. (CVE-2017-9461) SL7 x86_64 libsmbclient-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm libsmbclient-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm libwbclient-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm libwbclient-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_ [More...]. Synopsis: Low: samba security, bug fix, and enhancement update Advisory ID: SLSA-2017:1950-1 Issue Date: 2017-08-01 CVE Numbers: CVE-2017-9461 -- The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: samba (4.6.2). Security Fix(es): * A flaw was found in the way Samba handled dangling symlinks. An authenticated malicious Samba client could use this flaw to cause the smbd daemon to enter an infinite loop and use an excessive amount of CPU and memory. (CVE-2017-9461) -- SL7 x86_64 libsmbclient-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm libsmbclient-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm libwbclient-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm libwbclient-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-client-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-client-libs-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm samba-client-libs-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-common-libs-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-common-tools-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-debuginfo-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm samba-debuginfo-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-krb5-printing-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-libs-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm samba-libs-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-winbind-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-winbind-clients-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-winbind-modules-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm samba-winbind-modules-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm libsmbclient-devel-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm libsmbclient-devel-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm libwbclient-devel-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm libwbclient-devel-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-dc-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-dc-libs-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-devel-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm samba-devel-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-python-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-test-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-test-libs-4.6.2-8.el7.i686.rpm samba-test-libs-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-vfs-glusterfs-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm samba-winbind-krb5-locator-4.6.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm noarch samba-common-4.6.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm samba-pidl-4.6.2-8.el7.noarch.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team . A minor samba patch has been issued to fix an issue that was leading to excessive CPU and memory usage resulting from improper symlink management.. Samba Security, Resource Exhaustion, SL7 Update, Security Advisory. . Severity: Low. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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