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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

2011-04-10T02:55:02.633

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 3.3 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-16

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	vmware	open-vm-tools	≤ 8.4.2-261024	Yes

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 Exploit ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/44904 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 Exploit ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699 ([email protected])
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/44904 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)