Upstream information

CVE-2009-1143 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 372070 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 1 08:39:41 2019
CVE page last modified: Wed Nov 23 21:38:28 2022