CVE-2009-1143

CVE-2009-1143 : Open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848 contains a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (hgfsmounter) that allows local users to bypass mounting-share access restrictions via a symlink attack. The context indicates a local-privilege-like risk with high impact to confidentiality, integr...

CVE-2011-1681

CVE-2011-1681 affects vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier. The issue arises when the tool attempts to append to /etc/mtab without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, enabling a local user with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE to...