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.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-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 corruption of the /etc/mtab file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-1226-1 | Samba vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-1226-2 | cifs-utils vulnerabilities |
References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T22:37:24.582Z
Reserved: 2011-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2011-1678
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Status : Modified
Published: 2011-04-10T02:55:02.243
Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040
Link: CVE-2011-1678
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD
Ubuntu USN