Resource Management Errors Affecting util-linux package, versions [,2.19.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UTILLINUX-2334953
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Apr 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Apr 2011

CVE-2011-1675  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade util-linux to version 2.19.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1