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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…
Medium4.7EPSS 0.32%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
- General Race Condition
- CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (5)
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee0294d9b371071cb08268200 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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