CVE-2011-1089

Published Apr 10, 2011

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
3.3
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-16

Configurations