CVE-2011-1681
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1681
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2011-1681.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2011-1681
- Downstream
- Published
- 2011-04-10T02:55:02Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-10T03:41:44.938778Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/44904
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677