Name | CVE-2015-5191 |
Description | VMware Tools prior to 10.0.9 contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded paths under /tmp. Successful exploitation of this issue may result in a local privilege escalation. CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 869633 |
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) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 2:12.4.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - open-vm-tools <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - open-vm-tools <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
9.10.x: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/c1304ce8bfd9c0c33999e496bf7049d5c3d45821
10.0.x: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/b3068b04880eda4ca3e13f2d34fb8ce336ad1a4f
10.1.x: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/22e58289f71232310d30cf162b83b5151a937bac