CVE-2011-1678
EPSS 0.69%Published: 4/10/2011Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/cifs-utilsfrom 0, < 2:5.1-1
- Debian/sambafrom 0, < 2:3.4.7~dfsg-2