This host is installed with VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools and is prone to file corruption vulnerability.

Successful exploitation will allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value.

Upgrade to version 2011.05.27 or later, For updates refer to http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/files/open-vm-tools

The flaw is due to an error in 'vmware-hgfsmounter', which attempts to append to the '/etc/mtab' file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere.

VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools version 8.4.2-261024 and prior.

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4

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Updated on 2015-03-25