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DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.699999809265137 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
6.699999809265137
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12open-vm-tools0, 0, 0
Debian:13open-vm-tools0, 0, 0
Debian:14open-vm-tools0, 0, 0
Debian:11open-vm-tools0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Nov 23, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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