CVE-2011-3585 Race condition in Samba
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in Samba CIFS mount utilities by exploiting a race condition during signal handling.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-3585?
CVE-2011-3585 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 31 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-362
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3585?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Redhat Enterprise Linux, Samba Samba.
How do I fix CVE-2011-3585?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2011-3585 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3585 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-3585, ECHO-9a40-6754-1a7c, GHSA-jf3j-jm33-ff6p.