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, 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 Package | Release | Version | Status |
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open-vm-tools (PTS) | buster | 2:10.3.10-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2:10.3.10-1+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:12.3.5-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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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)