Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Dec 31, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2011-3585
CVE-2011-3585
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.
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Affected products
6cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 3.6
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: <3.6
Patches
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References
5- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- git.samba.orgnvd
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