| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2011-1681 (CCN-66699) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assigned: | 2011-03-31 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Published: | 2011-03-31 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Updated: | 2017-08-17 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 5.1 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 3.3 Low (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) 2.7 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:UR)
2.7 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:UR)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Bypass Security | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2011-1681 Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110304 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110303 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110304 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110303 Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110307 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110315 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: Exploit [oss-security] 20110331 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110331 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MLIST Type: UNKNOWN [oss-security] 20110401 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: SECUNIA Type: UNKNOWN 44904 Source: CCN Type: VMware Web site VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools Source: CCN Type: Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 688980 (CVE-2011-1089) CVE-2011-1089 glibc: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE Source: MISC Type: Exploit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN vmware-vmwarehgfsmounter-sec-bypass(66699) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN vmware-vmwarehgfsmounter-sec-bypass(66699) Source: SUSE Type: UNKNOWN openSUSE-SU-2011:0617 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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