Tracker / CVE-2009-1142
CVE-2009-1142
Medium 6.7
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.
Affected products and versions
| vmware | open_vm_tools |
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Analysis
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