CVE-2011-1678

Vulnerability 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.

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References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4Mailing ListThird Party Advisory