CVE-2009-1142

NameCVE-2009-1142
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
open-vm-tools (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie2:12.4.5-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
open-vm-toolssource(unstable)2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

Notes

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474285
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/76dccec4dd4002cec240e71e0042cdacfae6cca7 (2011.03.28-387002)

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