SUSE CVE-2005-3531

fusermount in FUSE before 2.4.1, if installed setuid root, allows local users to corrupt /etc/mtab and possibly modify mount options by performing a mount over a directory whose name contains certain special characters...

SUSE CVE-2011-1679

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...

CentOS 5 : glibc (CESA-2012:0126)

Updated glibc packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

ecryptfs: multiple flaws to mount/umount arbitrary locations and possibly disclose confidential information

utils/mount.ecryptfsprivate.c in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not properly maintain the mtab file during error conditions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service table corruption or bypass intended unmounting restrictions via a umount system call...

samba/cifs-utils: mount.cifs and umount.cifs fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

smbfs in Samba 3.5.8 and earlier attempts to use 1 mount.cifs to append to the /etc/mtab file and 2 umount.cifs 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 wi...