CVE-2011-1681

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-16 Configuration Errors
Publication date:
10/04/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open-vm-tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 8.4.2-261024 (including)


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools