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CVE-2011-1681

Published: 10/04/2011 Updated: 17/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.3 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 294
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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Vulnerability Summary

vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and previous versions 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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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: CVE-2011-1681
Debian Bug report logs - #623968 CVE-2011-1681 Package: open-vm-tools; Maintainer for open-vm-tools is Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@debianorg>; Source for open-vm-tools is src:open-vm-tools (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:27:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: se ...

References

CWE-16http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7http://secunia.com/advisories/44904https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623968https://nvd.nist.gov
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