CVE-2011-1749 (GCVE-0-2011-1749)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-02-26 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:37
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The 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.
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