CVE-2011-1749

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

26/02/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.30 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

3.30

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:linux-nfs:nfs-utils::::::::		1.2.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:linux-nfs:nfs-utils:1.2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:linux-nfs:nfs-utils:1.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:linux-nfs:nfs-utils:1.2.2:::::::*

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CVE-2011-1749

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools