CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2011-1681

LOW
3.3
CVSS v2
NVD

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.

How to fix

Remediation Available
open-vm-toolsDebian
Fixed in:2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1CVE-2011-1681
Fixed in:2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1CVE-2011-1681
Fixed in:2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1CVE-2011-1681
Fixed in:2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1CVE-2011-1681

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

0.44%probability of exploitation in 30 days
35thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 35% of all known CVEs.

References

Related Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2009-2335Medium5.085%-Fix
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CVE-2006-3677High7.578%-Fix
CVE-2011-4404Medium5.060%--
CVE-2006-0848Medium5.158%--
CVE-2007-3898Medium6.455%--
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