FKIE_CVE-2011-1675
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-04-10 02:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:29
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | util-linux | * | |
| 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 | 2.12 | |
| linux | util-linux | 2.13 | |
| 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 |
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