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DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1089

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1089 PUBLISHED

The addmntent function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier does not report an error status for failed attempts to write to the /etc/mtab file, which makes it easier for local users to trigger corruption of this file, as demonstrated by writes from a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0296.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debianglibc
Debian:12glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:14glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:11glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:13glibc0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Apr 10, 2011 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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