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CVE-2011-1089

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CVE-2011-1089

Published: Apr 10, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

46740
vdb-entry
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MDVSA-2011:178
vendor-advisory
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MDVSA-2011:179
vendor-advisory
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RHSA-2011:1526
vendor-advisory
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