CVE-2013-1662
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-08-24 01:00
Modified
2024-09-17 04:29
Severity ?
Summary
vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsb_release binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.htmlVendor Advisory
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