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CVE-2011-1678 (GCVE-0-2011-1678)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-04-10 01:29 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:37
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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Date Public
2011-03-03 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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      "aggregate_severity": "Low",
      "current_release_date": "2026-06-27T15:19:05+00:00",
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      "id": "CVE-2011-1678",
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      "product_status:fixed": "293",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "samba/cifs-utils: mount.cifs and umount.cifs fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2011/cve-2011-1678.json",
      "version": "3"
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-05-10T01:22:36Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2011-1678",
      "id": "CVE-2011-1678",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:53:26Z",
      "product_status:recommended": "3",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2011-1678",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2011-1678.json",
      "version": "5"
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}



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