CVE-2011-3585
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.7 · CWE-362
4.7CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Multiple race conditions in the (1) mount.cifs and (2) umount.cifs programs in Samba 3.6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (mounting outage) via a SIGKILL signal during a time window when the /etc/mtab~ file exists.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907Advisory
- https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5Advisory