Upstream information

CVE-2009-1142 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.7
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 372070 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 474285 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:45:21 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 18:19:52 2023