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CVE-2011-1681

CVE-2011-1681

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4