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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 0.09% · 25.3th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.09%
25.3th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | open-vm-tools | 0, 2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu1, 2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu2 |
Exploit Intelligence
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 (nist-nvd)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 (nist-nvd)
- vmware-vmwarehgfsmounter-sec-bypass(66699) (circl)
- [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (circl)
- 44904 (circl)
- [oss-security] 20110303 Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (circl)
- [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (circl)
- [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (circl)
- [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (circl)
- [oss-security] 20110307 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (circl)
…and 10 more exploits
Timeline
- Apr 10, 2011 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 9, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-1681 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1681 third-party-advisory