Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Samba Samba
3.6affected
References
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907 ↗
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1 ↗
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5 ↗
- https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200 ↗