{"id":"CVE-2011-1679","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2011-1679","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:22:21.505Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2011-04-10T02:55:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:29:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":3.3,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["ncpfs/ncpfs"],"epss":{"score":0.00374,"percentile":0.31128,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.37%). 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