CVE-2011-1681

vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.

Published: Apr 10, 2011
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2011-1681
Severity: Low
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 3.3
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-16

OWASP TOP 10:

A6 - Security Misconfiguration

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
vmware / open-vm-tools	-	8.4.2-261024.x

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2
http://secunia.com/advisories/44904
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677

Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2011-1681