CVE-2017-2619: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 11.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Samba before versions 4.6.1, 4.5.7 and 4.4.11 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a symlink race to allow access to areas of the server file system not exported under the share definition.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Samba Samba: before 4.4.12 (fixed in 4.4.12); from 4.5.0, before 4.5.7 (fixed in 4.5.7); from 4.6.0, before 4.6.1 (fixed in 4.6.1)

Published 2018-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.