CVE-2011-1679

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 10, 2011
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Apr 9, 2011

Description

ncpfs 2.2.6 and earlier attempts to use (1) ncpmount to append to the /etc/mtab file and (2) ncpumount 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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

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
[oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZEmailing-list
[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
ncpfs-mtab-security-bypass(66701)vdb-entry
[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
[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
[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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