Samba 3.6 mount.cifs/umount.cifs race condition

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Samba 3.6. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file mount.cifs/umount.cifs. Such manipulation leads to race condition. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-3585. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Samba 3.6 (File Transfer Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file mount.cifs/umount.cifs. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was disclosed 04/22/2023. The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-3585 since 09/21/2011. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Applying the patch 810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200 is able to eliminate this problem.

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Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Patch: 810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200

Timelineinfo

09/21/2011 🔍
04/22/2023 +4231 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Product: samba.org

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2011-3585 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-3585
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-227132

Entryinfo

Created: 04/22/2023 08:44
Changes: 04/22/2023 08:44 (55)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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