CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1675

3.3 LOW Published 2011-04-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-04-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier attempts 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.

Affected configurations

• linux util-linux (<= 2.19) • linux util-linux 2.2 • linux util-linux 2.5 • linux util-linux 2.7 • linux util-linux 2.8 • linux util-linux 2.9 • linux util-linux 2.10 • linux util-linux 2.11 • linux util-linux 2.12 • linux util-linux 2.13 • linux util-linux 2.14 • linux util-linux 2.15 • linux util-linux 2.16 • linux util-linux 2.17 • linux util-linux 2.18

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References