CVE-2011-1681

no score yetEPSS 0.4%

vmware open-vm-tools: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-16
Published: 2011-04-10
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

vmware:open-vm-tools

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3

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