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CVE-2011-1681

Published: Apr 10, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

44904
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
openSUSE-SU-2011:0617
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE

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