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CVE-2011-1681

vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append

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.

LOW · CVSS 3.3 EPSS 0.00088

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Public exploit or PoC is available

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Affected Products & Versions

1

vmware open-vm-tools<= 8.4.2-261024

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Public Exploits & PoCs

1

pocbugzilla.redhat.com · show_bug.cgi?id=688980bugzilla.redhat.com

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Scoring & Timeline

3.3

LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Published to NVD10 Apr 2011 · 02:55 AM

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References & Sources

19

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

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

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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/2011/03/31/3Exploit

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2

http://secunia.com/advisories/44904

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677

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