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CVE-2011-1089

Date: April 9, 2011

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

4.0

Related Resources (25)

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46740

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1526.html

Url: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12625

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1089

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1089

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1089

Severity Score

4.0

Weakness Type (CWE)

Configuration

CWE-16

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	3.3
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2011-1089

Date: April 9, 2011

Language: C

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