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CVE-2009-1142

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.

Published

2022-11-23T18:15:10.770

Last Modified

2025-04-25T21:15:16.083

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.7 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-59
Type: Secondary
CWE-59

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	vmware	open_vm_tools	2009.03.18-154848	Yes

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)