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...

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...

CVE-2009-1142

CVE-2009-1142 affects open-vm-tools version 2009.03.18-154848. The vulnerability arises when the vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled, allowing a local attacker to perform a symlink attack on files in /tmp to gain privileges. Multiple connected s...