CVE-2011-1089
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 10, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 24, 2011
Description
The addmntent function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file, as demonstrated by writes from a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0296.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110303 Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12625
- [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- 46740vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980
- [oss-security] 20110307 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- MDVSA-2011:178vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20110401 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110304 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110331 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110304 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- MDVSA-2011:179vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110303 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- RHSA-2011:1526vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20110331 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110315 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
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