DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1681
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681
Upstream
Published
2011-04-10T02:55:02.633Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:01:57.803620Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / open-vm-tools

Package

Name
open-vm-tools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681.json"

Debian:12 / open-vm-tools

Package

Name
open-vm-tools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681.json"

Debian:13 / open-vm-tools

Package

Name
open-vm-tools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681.json"

Debian:14 / open-vm-tools

Package

Name
open-vm-tools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681.json"