Upstream information

CVE-2011-1749 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.3
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 689799 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2011:0747-1 openSUSE-SU-2011:0749-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 nfs-utils Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 nfs-utils Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS nfs-utils Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 nfs-utils Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 19:09:10 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:01:06 2023