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VMware open-vm-toolsvmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier…

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3.3
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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 RLIMITFSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.

First published (updated )
CVE-2011-1681

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