{"id":"UBUNTU-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value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:16:59.809154Z","published":"2011-04-10T02:55:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:42:42Z","upstream":["CVE-2011-1681"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-1681"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1681"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"open-vm-tools","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/open-vm-tools@2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2"}]}],"versions":["2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu1","2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu2","2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu4","2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu5","2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu6","2:9.4.0-1280544-5","2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu1","2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu2","2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu4","2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu5","2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-dkms"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-dkms-lts-trusty"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-toolbox"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-toolbox-lts-trusty"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-dbg"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-desktop"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-dev"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-dkms"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-lts-trusty"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-dbg"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-desktop"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-dev"},{"binary_version":"2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2","binary_name":"open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-dkms"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2011/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1681.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}