CVE-2011-1679

Low

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.

SeverityLow
CVSS3.3
Exploit probability—
ProductNcpfs
PublishedApr 10, 2011
First seenApr 10, 2011

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ncpfs ncpfsv ≤ 2.2.6, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5—

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