Configuration
CVE-2011-1681
Summary
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.
- MEDIUM
- LOCAL
- NONE
- PARTIAL
- PARTIAL
- NONE
CWE-16 - Configuration
Weaknesses in this category are typically introduced during the configuration of the software.
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published
