Bug 1253689 (CVE-2015-5191)

Summary: CVE-2015-5191 open-vm-tools: /tmp race conditions in the libDeployPkg component
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: fweimer, ldu, leiwang, negativo17, ravindrakumar, rjones, security-response-team, villapla, yacao
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Bug Depends On: 1253690, 1253691, 1253698, 1474701    
Bug Blocks: 1253700    

Description Florian Weimer 2015-08-14 13:09:57 UTC 
It was discovered that open-vm-tools has multiple /tmp race conditions in the libDeployPkg component, allowing an unprivileged local user in a guest to cause a denial of service through file system manipulation, or, possibly, increase privileges.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.
Comment 11 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-25 08:12:14 UTC 
Created open-vm-tools tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1474701]
Comment 12 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-25 08:13:41 UTC 
References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/209

Upstream patches:

9.10.x – https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/c1304ce8bfd9c0c33999e496bf7049d5c3d45821
10.0.x - https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/b3068b04880eda4ca3e13f2d34fb8ce336ad1a4f
10.1.x - https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/22e58289f71232310d30cf162b83b5151a937bac