{"id":"CVE-2011-1681","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:41:44.938778Z","published":"2011-04-10T02:55:02Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/44904"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}