Bug 695916 (CVE-2011-1675) - CVE-2011-1675 util-linux: mount fails to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE
Summary: CVE-2011-1675 util-linux: mount fails to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-1675
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 695940 738789 768382
Blocks: 734217 734543 742493
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Reported: 2011-04-12 22:02 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-21 08:35:00 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1691 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: util-linux-ng security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2011-12-06 01:02:36 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0307 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: util-linux security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2012-02-21 07:24:56 UTC

Description Vincent Danen 2011-04-12 22:02:44 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-1675 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2011-1675
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1675
Assigned: 20110409
Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier attempts 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.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-04-12 22:35:31 UTC 
Created util-linux-ng tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 695940]
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2011-05-12 14:03:21 UTC 
Summary of the patches that were committed upstream to address this and related issues can be found in bug #695940, comment #5.
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 17:10:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1691 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1691.html
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-21 03:20:26 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0307 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0307.html
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