CVE-2009-1142

Published November 23rd, 2022

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CVSS v3

6.7

MEDIUM

CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECT

Description

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.

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Official repository of VMware open-vm-tools project

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