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 /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.

Date published : 2011-04-09

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:148

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980