VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2011-1679

CVSS score3.3 LOW
EPSS probability0.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2011-04-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references