CVE-2011-1679
Publication date 10 April 2011
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
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.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ncpfs | ||
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not in release | |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release | |