Race Condition Affecting samba package, versions <2:3.4.7~dfsg-2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-SAMBA-357602
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed31 Dec 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2011-3585  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 samba to version 2:3.4.7~dfsg-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba package and not the samba package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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