Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 10, 2011· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2011-1678
CVE-2011-1678
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.
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Affected products
2cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=3.5.8
- (no CPE)range: <=3.5.8
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References
19- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvdBroken Link
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66702nvd
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