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
Link Resource
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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cve-icon 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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cve-icon 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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