CVE-2009-1142 Information

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.

Reference

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