CVE-2011-1681

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    CVE-2011-1681

    Published: 10 Apr 2011Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://secunia.com/advisories/44904, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980, 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/2011/03/31/4, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699, https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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