3.3 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.3%
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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | open-vm-tools | < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 | open-vm-tools_2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | open-vm-tools | < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 | open-vm-tools_2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | open-vm-tools | < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 | open-vm-tools_2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | open-vm-tools | < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 | open-vm-tools_2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1_all.deb |