Upstream information
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.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having low severity.
| National Vulnerability Database | |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 3.3 |
| Vector | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
SUSE Security Advisories:
- openSUSE-SU-2011:0617-1
Status of this issue by product and package
Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.
| Product(s) | Source package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 | open-vm-tools | Already fixed |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 08:01:44 2013CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 2 15:34:18 2024