Vulnerability in Vmware Open-Vm-Tools

CVE-2011-1681

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: 0.004 (36.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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