Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 23, 2022· Updated Apr 25, 2025

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.

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Affected products

open-vm-tools/open-vm-toolsdescription
VMware/Open VM Toolsllm-fuzzy
Range: = 2009.03.18-154848

Patches

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References

bugs.gentoo.org/264577mitre
github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848mitre

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