CVE-2011-1681
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2011-1681 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2011-04-10 02:55:02 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
LocalAccess Complexity
MediumAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
PartialIntegrity
PartialAvailability
NoneAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Vmware | Open-vm-tools | All | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | hermes.opensuse.org | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| Bug 688980 – CVE-2011-1089 glibc: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugzilla.redhat.com | Exploit |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | Exploit |
| oss-security - Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| SUSE update for open-vm-tools - Secunia.com | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| IBM X-Force Exchange | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com | |
| oss-security - Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openwall.com | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.