CVE-2011-1679
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (32th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1679)
- Published
- April 10, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1679 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ncpfs / ncpfs
- ncpfs / ncpfs
- ncpfs / ncpfs
- ncpfs / ncpfs
- ncpfs / ncpfs
- ncpfs / ncpfs
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980(Issue Tracking)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66701
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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