| 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 |
| sid, trixie | 2:4.21.1+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| 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