CVE-2011-1681 | Date: (C)2011-04-09 (M)2023-12-22 |
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 Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -CVSS V2 Severity: |
CVSS Score : 3.3 |
Exploit Score: 3.4 |
Impact Score: 4.9 |
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CVSS V2 Metrics: |
Access Vector: LOCAL |
Access Complexity: MEDIUM |
Authentication: NONE |
Confidentiality: PARTIAL |
Integrity: PARTIAL |
Availability: NONE |
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