CVE-2011-1681

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)	bullseye (security), bullseye	2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	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

[squeeze] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Contrib not supported)
[lenny] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Contrib not supported)