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CVE-2011-1681

CVE-2011-1681 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 0.44% · 38.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.44%
38.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSopen-vm-tools0, 2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu1, 2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu2

Timeline

  • Apr 10, 2011 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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