Vulnerability in Samba
CVE-2011-3585
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.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (22.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 22.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Samba — versions 3.6.0, 3.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- git.samba.org/
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2011-3585?
- CVE-2011-3585 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Samba, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2019-12-31.
- How severe is CVE-2011-3585?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.