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-2011-1749
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.3
EPSS
0.36%
Original NVD Description
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.