Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Nov 23, 2022· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2009-1142
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
3cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:2009.03.18-154848:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:2009.03.18-154848:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 2009.03.18-154848
- open-vm-tools/open-vm-toolsdescription
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References
2- bugs.gentoo.org/264577nvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848nvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
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