CVE-2011-1678
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.53%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 3.3 LOWAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.53% probability · 43th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- samba/samba
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:148Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66702
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.