CVE-2011-1749
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
The nfs_addmntent function in support/nfs/nfs_mntent.c in the mount.nsf tool in nfs-utils before 1.2.4 attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to corrupt this 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:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (29th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1748)
- Published
- February 26, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1748 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux-nfs / nfs-utils
- linux-nfs / nfs-utils
- linux-nfs / nfs-utils
- linux-nfs / nfs-utils
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1534.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0310.html(Patch)
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/files/nfs-utils/1.2.4/Changelog-nfs-utils-1.2.4/download(Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/25/5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697975
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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