CVE-2011-1089 (GCVE-0-2011-1089)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-04-10 01:29
Modified
2024-08-06 22:14
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12625 x_refsource_MISC
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46740 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 x_refsource_MISC
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1526.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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