Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-1681 - Configuration vulnerability in VMWare Open-Vm-Tools
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_4_LIBVMTOOLS-DEVEL-110608.NASL description This update of open-vm-tools fixes the following vulnerabilities which allowed an attacker to gain root privileges within the guest system : - CVE-2011-1681 - CVE-2011-2146 - CVE-2011-1787 - CVE-2011-2145 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 75932 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75932 title openSUSE Security Update : libvmtools-devel (openSUSE-SU-2011:0617-1) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update libvmtools-devel-4693. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(75932); script_version("1.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:42"); script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1681", "CVE-2011-1787", "CVE-2011-2145", "CVE-2011-2146"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : libvmtools-devel (openSUSE-SU-2011:0617-1)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the libvmtools-devel-4693 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update of open-vm-tools fixes the following vulnerabilities which allowed an attacker to gain root privileges within the guest system : - CVE-2011-1681 - CVE-2011-2146 - CVE-2011-1787 - CVE-2011-2145" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673267" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690491" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-06/msg00018.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected libvmtools-devel packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); 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exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.4)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.4", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.4", reference:"libvmtools-devel-2011.05.27-0.3.3") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.4", reference:"libvmtools0-2011.05.27-0.3.3") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.4", reference:"libvmtools0-debuginfo-2011.05.27-0.3.3") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.4", reference:"open-vm-tools-2011.05.27-0.3.3") ) flag++; 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if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "open-vm-tools"); }
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script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.3", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"libvmtools-devel-2011.05.27-0.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"libvmtools0-2011.05.27-0.3.1") ) flag++; 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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
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44904
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677