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.
Published: 2011-04-10
Score: 3.3 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD 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 Ubuntu USN USN-1226-1 Samba vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1226-2 cifs-utils vulnerabilities
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Samba Samba
cve-icon MITRE

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

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-03-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1678 - Bugzilla

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