DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1142
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142
Upstream
Published
2022-11-23T18:15:10Z
Modified
2026-09-17T07:00:37Z
Severity
  • 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / open-vm-tools

Package

Name
open-vm-tools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142.json"

Debian:13 / open-vm-tools

Package

Name
open-vm-tools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142.json"

Debian:14 / open-vm-tools

Package

Name
open-vm-tools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142.json"