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
- vmware / open_vm_tools8.4.2-261024
References
- MISChttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/44904
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
- MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3
- MAILING_LISThttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6
- MISChttps://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677
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