CVE-2011-3585 (GCVE-0-2011-3585)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-12-31 19:47 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:37
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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.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • General Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Samba Samba Affected: 3.6
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Date Public
2010-02-25 00:00
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