An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848 | Release Notes Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
Information
Published : 2022-11-23 10:15
Updated : 2022-11-28 10:33
NVD link : CVE-2009-1142
Mitre link : CVE-2009-1142
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CWE
CWE-59
Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Products Affected
vmware
- open_vm_tools