CVE

Id
49593  
CVE No.
CVE-2011-1681  
Status
Candidate  
Description
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20110409)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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