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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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
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2011-04-10T02:55:02.633
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:26:47.500
Link: CVE-2011-1681
Redhat
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