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CVE-2011-1681
published 2011-04-10

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…

PriorityP46low3.3CVSS 2.0
AVLACMAuNCPIPAN
EPSS
0.44%
35.7th percentile
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.

Affected

6 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianopen-vm-tools< open-vm-tools 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 (bookworm)open-vm-tools 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 (bookworm)
vmwareopen-vm-tools<= 8.4.2-261024
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.03.3LOWAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
osv3.3LOW
vendor_debian3.3LOW
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