CVE-2011-1679 Information

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.

Reference

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