CVE-2011-1681
Publication date 10 April 2011
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
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.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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| open-vm-tools | ||
| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Not affected
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| 14.04 LTS trusty |
Not affected
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