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.
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Configurations
Information
Published : 2011-04-09 19:55
Updated : 2017-08-16 18:34
NVD link : CVE-2011-1681
Mitre link : CVE-2011-1681
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CWE
CWE-16
Configuration
Products Affected
vmware
- open-vm-tools