CVE-2009-1143 Information

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).

Reference

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