CVE-2009-1142

Name	CVE-2009-1142
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, 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 Package	Release	Version	Status
open-vm-tools (PTS)	bullseye	2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3	fixed
	bullseye (security)	2:11.2.5-2+deb11u5	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	2:12.2.0-1+deb12u3	fixed
	trixie	2:12.5.0-2	fixed
	forky, sid	2:13.0.5-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
open-vm-tools	source	(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)