samba is vulnerable denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists as 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.
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99455
access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1950
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2338
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2778
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
bugs.debian.org/864291
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218926
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1327810
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356932
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377690
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377729
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377751
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389786
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397871
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397891
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397895
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401505
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403242
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403975
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416746
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420130
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1430755
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1430759
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431986
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1448544
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459179
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1460937
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461336
bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12572
git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=10c3e3923022485c720f322ca4f0aca5d7501310
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html