CVE-2011-1681
lowpriority · track · 13EPSS 0.004 · 39 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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affected products (2)
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references (57)
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- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16cnnvd
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