CVE-2011-1681

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Vmware
Status
Open-vm-tools
Vendor
CVE Published:
10 April 2011

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/44904
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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