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Multiple race conditions in the (1) mount.cifs and (2)...

Low severity Unreviewed Published Apr 22, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 20, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 31, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 22, 2022
Last updated Feb 20, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

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(67th percentile)

Weaknesses

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

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. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2011-3585

GHSA ID

GHSA-jf3j-jm33-ff6p

Source code

No known source code

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