FKIE_CVE-2011-1681
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-04-10 02:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:29
Severity
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | open-vm-tools | * |
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