Argument injection vulnerability in login (login-utils/login.c) in util-linux-ng 2.14 and earlier makes it easier for remote attackers to hide activities by modifying portions of log events, as demonstrated by appending an "addr=" statement to the login name, aka "audit log injection."

A race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier does not remove the /etc/mtab~ lock file after a failed attempt to add a mount entry, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-1676 to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2011-1676 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1676 Assigned: 20110409 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=688980

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier does not remove the /etc/mtab.tmp file after a failed attempt to add a mount entry, which allows local users to trigger corruption of the /etc/mtab file via multiple invocations.

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 RLIMITFSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.