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CVE-2011-1679

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CVE-2011-1679

Published: Apr 10, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

ncpfs-mtab-security-bypass(66701)
vdb-entry
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