CVE-2011-1675: Linux Util-Linux

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier attempts 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.

Affected products

• Linux Util-Linux: up to and including 2.19; version 2.2 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.7 only; version 2.8 only; version 2.9 only; …

Published 2011-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.