UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1681

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-1681
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2011/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1681.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1681
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:42:42Z
Published
2011-04-10T02:55:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:16:59.809154Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - low
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

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / open-vm-tools

Package

Name
open-vm-tools
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/open-vm-tools@2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2

Affected versions

2013.*
2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu1
2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu2
2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu4
2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu5
2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu6
2:9.*
2:9.4.0-1280544-5
2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu1
2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu2
2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu4
2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu5
2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-dkms"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-dkms-lts-trusty"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-toolbox"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-toolbox-lts-trusty"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-dbg"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-desktop"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-dkms"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-lts-trusty"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-dbg"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-desktop"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-dkms"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2011/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1681.json"