CVE-2014-4199

NameCVE-2014-4199
Descriptionvm-support 0.88 in VMware Tools, as distributed with VMware Workstation through 10.0.3 and other products, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /tmp.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs770809

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
open-vm-tools (PTS)bookworm2:12.2.0-1+deb12u4fixed
bookworm (security)2:12.2.0-1+deb12u3fixed
trixie2:12.5.0-2+deb13u1fixed
forky, sid2:13.0.10-1.1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
open-vm-toolssource(unstable)2:9.4.6-1770165-7low770809

Notes

[squeeze] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71
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