CVE-2011-1681 Information

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.

Reference

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 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/2011/03/31/3 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677