Race Condition Affecting samba-doc package, versions <0:3.5.6-86.el6_1.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-SAMBADOC-1431836
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Feb 2010

Introduced: 25 Feb 2010

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 samba-doc to version 0:3.5.6-86.el6_1.4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2011:1221.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba-doc package and not the samba-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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 Base Scores

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