| Name | CVE-2011-1681 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 623968 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| open-vm-tools (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2:9.4.6-1770165-8+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2:10.1.5-5055683-4+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2:10.3.10-1+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:12.4.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| open-vm-tools | source | (unstable) | 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 | low | | 623968 |
Notes
[squeeze] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Contrib not supported)
[lenny] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Contrib not supported)