cve-2009-1142
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 05:04
Severity ?
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.gentoo.org/264577Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
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