FKIE_CVE-2011-1681

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-04-10 02:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:29
Severity
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/44904
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699
cve@mitre.orghttps://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/44904
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vmware open-vm-tools *
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