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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44904 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6 ↗
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677 ↗