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CVE-2011-1678

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…

Low3.3EPSS 0.53%
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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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2011-1678, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Low3.3AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.

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