Oval Definition:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20644
Revision Date:2014-01-20Version:4
Title:VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party library and ESX Service Console
Description:smbfs in Samba 3.5.8 and earlier attempts to use (1) mount.cifs to append to the /etc/mtab file and (2) umount.cifs to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of the /etc/mtab file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:ACCEPTEDReference(s):CVE-2011-1678
Platform(s):VMWare ESX Server 4.0
VMWare ESX Server 4.1
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Patch ESX410-201201407-SG is not installed
  • VMware ESX Server 4.1 is installed
  • AND Patch ESX410-201201407-SG is not installed
  • OR Patch ESX400-201203404-SG is not installed
  • VMware ESX Server 4.0 is installed
  • AND Patch ESX400-201203404-SG is not installed
  • BACK