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CVE-2011-3585

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
• Samba: 3.6.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907
• https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179
• https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907
• https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179
• https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5

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