CVE-2011-1681 | Vulnerability Database | Aqua Security

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.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Open-vm-tools	Vmware	*	8.4.2-261024 (including)
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	karmic	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	lucid	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	maverick	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	natty	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	oneiric	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	precise	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	quantal	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	raring	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	saucy	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	upstream	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	utopic	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	vivid	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	wily	*
Open-vm-tools	Ubuntu	yakkety	*

References

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

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1681
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/16.html