Upstream information

CVE-2011-1678 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.3
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 686552 [VERIFIED / FIXED]

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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • cifs-utils >= 5.1-0.4.9
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA cifs-utils-5.1-0.4.9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • cifs-utils >= 5.1-0.11.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA cifs-utils-5.1-0.11.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • cifs-utils >= 5.1-0.14.46
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA cifs-utils-5.1-0.14.46

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 12:20:10 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 21:24:34 2024