CVE-2011-1681

Published Apr 10, 2011

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 3.3
Impact score: 4.9
Exploitability score: 3.4
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-16

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open-vm-tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "30920B5D-E4DF-449A-80A9-C72B662E2FE9",
            "versionEndIncluding": "8.4.2-261024"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References