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…

published April 10, 2011

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00445 · 37.4th percentile
Published
2011-04-10T01:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 APR 01:29Z
    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…
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