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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-04-10T01:29:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:37:25.510Z

Reserved: 2011-04-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-1681

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-04-10T02:55:02.633

Modified: 2017-08-17T01:34:19.260

Link: CVE-2011-1681

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