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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    | Source | ID | Title | 
|---|---|---|
  EUVD | 
                EUVD-2011-1681 | 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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T22:37:25.510Z
Reserved: 2011-04-09T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2011-1681
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2011-04-10T02:55:02.633
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2011-1681
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