Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 10, 2011· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2011-1681
CVE-2011-1681
Description
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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Affected products
2- Range: <= 8.4.2-261024
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
20- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3nvdExploit
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploit
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/44904nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699nvd
- hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677nvd
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