CVE-2011-1679

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 ↗
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 ↗
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66701 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 ↗
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6 ↗