CVE-2011-1681
EPSS 0.09%Published: 4/10/2011Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/open-vm-toolsfrom 0, < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1