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CVE-2011-1679

LOW · CVSS 3.3 EPSS 0.37%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2011-04-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.3. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2011-1679
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.3
EPSS
0.37%

Original NVD Description

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.