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CVE-2011-3585 Details

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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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:4.7 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907	CVE	Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179	CVE	Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200	CVE
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907	[email protected]	Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179	[email protected]	Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200	[email protected]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

see all 10 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-362	Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
samba samba	3.6.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.6.0:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.
redhat enterprise linux	4.0 5.0 6.0
CPE 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:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 13, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 10, 2020	Initial Analysis	[email protected]