vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-9461): Samba vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 6, 2017
Added
Jul 6, 2017
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

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)

In addition, this update fixes a regression introduced by USN-3267-1
that caused Samba to incorrectly handle non-wide symlinks to directories.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-samba
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