CVE-2011-3585

MEDIUM

Samba 3.6 - Denial of Service via Race Condition in mount.cifs and umount.cifs

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 33.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (4)
redhat/enterprise_linux 4.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 6.0
samba/samba 3.6.0
Published Dec 31, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026