Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24874Denial Of Service (DoS)
3.3 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
nfs-utils is vulnerable to denial of service. It was found that the mount.nfs tool did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab (mounted file systems table) file. A local attacker could use this flaw to corrupt the mtab file.
References
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1534.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0310.html
sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/files/nfs-utils/1.2.4/Changelog-nfs-utils-1.2.4/download
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/25/5
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1534
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697975
docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/nfs-utils.html#RHSA-2011-1534
Related
3.3 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P