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LIN1021-4819 : Security Advisory - open-vm-tools - CVE-2009-1142

Created: Nov 23, 2022 Updated: Dec 16, 2022

Resolved Date: Dec 16, 2022

Found In Version: 10.21.20.1

Fix Version: 10.21.20.15

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21

Component/s: Userspace

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.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2009-1142 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1142)

CVEs

CVE-2009-1142