CVE-2011-3585: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Samba Samba: version 3.6.0 only

Published 2019-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.