Upstream information

CVE-2011-1787 at MITRE

Description

Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.9
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 673267 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 698172 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2011:0617-1

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS open-vm-tools Already fixed
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS open-vm-tools Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 open-vm-tools Already fixed

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 08:01:45 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 2 15:34:36 2024