3.3 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
samba does not properly verify resource limits. It was found that the mount.cifs tool did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab file. If mount.cifs had the setuid bit set, a local attacker could corrupt the mtab file by setting a small file size limit before running mount.cifs.
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:148
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1219
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66702