CVE-2011-1749
EPSS 0.16%Published: 2/26/2014Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1749
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/nfs-utilsfrom 0, < 1:1.2.3-3