CVE-2011-1679

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66701
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6

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