Name | CVE-2011-1678 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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cifs-utils (PTS) | bullseye | 2:6.11-3.1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2:6.11-3.1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:7.0-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:7.0-2.1 | fixed |
samba (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 2:4.21.2+dfsg-3 | fixed |
| sid | 2:4.21.2+dfsg-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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cifs-utils | source | squeeze | 2:4.5-2+squeeze1 | | | |
cifs-utils | source | (unstable) | 2:5.1-1 | low | | |
samba | source | (unstable) | 2:3.4.7~dfsg-2 | low | | |
Notes
cifs-utils was split off from the samba source package with 2:3.4.7~dfsg-2, so marking it as fixed
http://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6eae44a3d05b6515a59651e6bed8b6dde689aec