CVE-2011-1678

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
cifs-utils (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	2:6.4-1+deb8u1	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	2:6.7-1+deb9u1	fixed
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	2:6.8-2+deb10u1	fixed
	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)	jessie, jessie (lts)	2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u16	fixed
	stretch (security)	2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u4	fixed
	stretch (lts), stretch	2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u5	fixed
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	2:4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u5	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6	fixed
	bookworm (security), bookworm	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
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