{"id":"DEBIAN-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":"2026-09-14T06:47:28.059474472Z","published":"2011-04-10T02:55:02.633Z","upstream":["CVE-2011-1681"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1681"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"open-vm-tools","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681.json"}},{"package":{"name":"open-vm-tools","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681.json"}},{"package":{"name":"open-vm-tools","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"low"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}