CVE-2011-1678

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.

• CWE-20

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:148Broken Link
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980Issue Tracking
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66702
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:148Broken Link
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980Issue Tracking
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66702

Published

Apr 10, 2011

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified