CVE-2011-1749

Summary

CVECVE-2011-1749
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-02-26 15:55:00 UTC
Updated2014-03-10 21:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThe nfs_addmntent function in support/nfs/nfs_mntent.c in the mount.nsf tool in nfs-utils before 1.2.4 attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to corrupt this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.0 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.1 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.2 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.0 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.1 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.2 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Download NFS from SourceForge.net CONFIRM sourceforge.net Patch
access.redhat.com REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request: CVE-2011-1089-like flaw in mount.nfs MLIST www.openwall.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Patch
Bug 697975 – CVE-2011-1749 nfs-utils: mount.nfs fails to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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