Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1681

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-04-10 01:29:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 22:37:25

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State 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.

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