CVE-2011-3585
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.7 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (23th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-3547)
- Published
- December 31, 2019
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-3547 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- samba / samba
Certified products that may be affected
14 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module v4.0 with CPACF - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2798 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2742 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Libreswan Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2721 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux NSS Cryptographic Module v4.0 - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2711 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v4.0 [1] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v5.0 [2] - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2657 - historical
See all 14 in the Security Certifications Explorer.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179(Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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