National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1089

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MISC

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

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

External Source: BID

Name: 46740

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

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1526

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

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:179

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

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:178

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

External Source: MISC

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

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110401 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110331 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110331 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110315 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110307 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110303 Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110304 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110303 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110304 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

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