{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1749","details":"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value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:16:59.872824Z","published":"2014-02-26T15:55:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:42:42Z","upstream":["CVE-2011-1749"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-1749"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1749"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nfs-utils","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/nfs-utils@1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1"}]}],"versions":["1:1.2.8-2ubuntu2","1:1.2.8-4ubuntu1","1:1.2.8-5ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1","binary_name":"nfs-common"},{"binary_version":"1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1","binary_name":"nfs-kernel-server"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2011/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1749.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}