Bug 2160322

Summary:	CVE-2009-1142 open-vm-tools: privilege escalation if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	TEJ RATHI <trathi>
Component:	open-vm-tools	Assignee:	John Wolfe <jwolfe>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	37	CC:	jwolfe, ravindrakumar, rjones
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Bug Blocks:	2158065

Description TEJ RATHI 2023-01-12 04:45:11 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158065

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 TEJ RATHI 2023-01-12 04:45:14 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

=====

# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2158065,2160322

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

======

Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 John Wolfe 2023-01-16 18:55:18 UTC

Raising the same question that I posted to bug 2158065.

Can someone explain why CVE-2009-1142 is relative to currently supported releases of open-vm-tools currently in use on Red Hat systems?

It appears that the offending code only concerned FreeBSD or Solaris guests and the code was removed from the open-vm-tools source in March of 2011.  See the last URL in this bug description.  As the git commit log is cummulative, accessing that URL

   https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/76dccec4dd4002cec240e71e0042cdacfae6cca7 (2011.03.28-387002)

shows the removal of the code in the history of the current 12.1.5 open-vm-tools (tag stable-12.1.5)

That is the only information that can be derived from this bug report.  The "depends" or "blocks" bugs are locked; the reason for this bug is not apparent from the information that is available.

If there is an issue that Vmware needs to address, we will need some more details.

Comment 3 John Wolfe 2023-10-23 20:42:08 UTC

Closing this BZ as "Not a Bug".  

As noted in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158065#c9, the offending code was removed from open-vm-tools in March of 2011.