CVE-2011-3585
MEDIUM
4.7
CVSS Score
Published: December 31, 2019 at 07:47 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise LinuxSAMBA
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Severity
MEDIUM4.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (5)
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362
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