{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:28Z",
  "published": "2011-04-10T02:55:02Z",
  "id": "CVE-2011-1681",
  "details": "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.",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/44904"
    },
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3"
    },
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677"
    }
  ]
}