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
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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 |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2022-11-23T00:00:00
Updated: 2022-11-23T00:00:00
Reserved: 2009-03-25T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-1142
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2022-11-23T18:15:10.770
Modified: 2022-11-28T18:33:36.763
Link: CVE-2009-1142
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Redhat Information
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CWE