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CVE-2011-3585

Publication date 3 October 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.7 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cifs-utils 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
9.10 karmic Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release
samba 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.8
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.16

Patch details

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Package Patch details
cifs-utils
samba

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.7 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

Other references