CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1681
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-04-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-16
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• vmware open-vm-tools (<= 8.4.2-261024)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44904 secunia.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677 hermes.opensuse.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44904 secunia.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677 hermes.opensuse.org