fkie_cve-2014-4199
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2014-08-28 15:14
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
vm-support 0.88 in VMware Tools, as distributed with VMware Workstation through 10.0.3 and other products, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /tmp.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/110458
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/110458
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vmware tools *
vmware vm-support 0.88
vmware workstation *
vmware workstation 10.0
vmware workstation 10.0.1
vmware workstation 10.0.2


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