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DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1787

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1787 PUBLISHED

Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.

Affected Products

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

Timeline

  • Jun 6, 2011 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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