CVE-2011-1678

Published Apr 10, 2011

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 3.3
Impact score: 4.9
Exploitability score: 3.4
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "B345D0C0-A0EA-4E6D-B173-14CCF66FFE0D",
            "versionEndIncluding": "3.5.8"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References