CVE-2011-1089

The addmntent function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file, as demonstrated by writes from a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0296.

Score
CVSS 2.0 3.3 Low
Status
Modified - secalert@redhat.com
Published
2011-04-10
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-16

Affected products

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