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CVE-2011-3585

Multiple race conditions in the (1) mount.cifs and (2) umount.cifs programs in S...

Medium CVSS 4.7

Overview

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.

CWE: CWE-362 Published: 2019-12-31T20:15:11.060
Risk analysis

This vulnerability is rated 🟡 MEDIUM.

  • CVSS: 4.7 (MEDIUM)
  • Detected tags: none (tag impact: LOW)

Recommended actions:

  • Prioritize remediation based on business criticality and exposure.
  • Limit exposure and increase monitoring until fixed.

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