CVE-2011-1678
LOW severity · CVSS 3.3 · Improper input validation
3.3CVSS LOW
Summary
smbfs in Samba 3.5.8 and earlier attempts to use (1) mount.cifs to append to the /etc/mtab file and (2) umount.cifs to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of the /etc/mtab file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16Advisory