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Permalink CVE-2011-3585

created 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Multiple race conditions in the (1) mount.cifs and (2) umount.cifs …

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.

References

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7179 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742907 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/1 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/5 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=810f7e4e0f2dbcbee029… x_transferredx_refsource_MISC

Affected products

Samba

==3.6

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.samba

Standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix

nixos-unstable 4.22.7
- nixpkgs-unstable 4.22.7
- nixos-unstable-small 4.22.7
nixos-25.11 4.22.6
- nixos-25.11-small 4.22.6
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 4.22.6

pkgs.samba4

Standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix

nixos-unstable 4.22.7
- nixpkgs-unstable 4.22.7
- nixos-unstable-small 4.22.7
nixos-25.11 4.22.6
- nixos-25.11-small 4.22.6
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 4.22.6

pkgs.sambamba

SAM/BAM processing tool

nixos-unstable 1.0.1
- nixpkgs-unstable 1.0.1
- nixos-unstable-small 1.0.1
nixos-25.11 1.0.1
- nixos-25.11-small 1.0.1
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 1.0.1

pkgs.sambaFull

Standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix

nixos-unstable 4.22.7
- nixpkgs-unstable 4.22.7
- nixos-unstable-small 4.22.7
nixos-25.11 4.22.6
- nixos-25.11-small 4.22.6
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 4.22.6

pkgs.samba4Full

Standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix

nixos-unstable 4.22.7
- nixpkgs-unstable 4.22.7
- nixos-unstable-small 4.22.7
nixos-25.11 4.22.6
- nixos-25.11-small 4.22.6
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 4.22.6

Package maintainers

@aneeshusa Aneesh Agrawal <aneeshusa@gmail.com>
@jbedo Justin Bedő <cu@cua0.org>

Suggestion detail

References

Affected products

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.samba

pkgs.samba4

pkgs.sambamba

pkgs.sambaFull

pkgs.samba4Full

Package maintainers