Bug 1165899 – CVE-2014-4199 open-vm-tools: insecure temporary file creation

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Bug 1165899 - (CVE-2014-4199) CVE-2014-4199 open-vm-tools: insecure temporary file creation

Summary:	CVE-2014-4199 open-vm-tools: insecure temporary file creation

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	CVE-2014-4199

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Reopened, Security

Depends On:	1165901 1165902
Blocks:	1029916 1165903
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Reported:	2014-11-19 20:53 EST by Murray McAllister
Modified:	2018-03-21 10:27 EDT (History)
CC List:	17 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-02-22 15:44:24 EST
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-11-19 20:53:45 EST

The vm-support script created temporary files in /tmp/ insecurely. A local attacker could use this flaw to overwrite an arbitrary file, possibly leading to a denial of service.

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http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-11-19 20:56:07 EST

Created open-vm-tools tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1165901]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1165902]

Comment 4 Ravindra Kumar 2015-08-04 18:53:44 EDT

This will also get fixed by rebasing open-vm-tools to 9.10.2, bug 1172833.

Comment 5 Kurt Seifried 2018-03-20 14:30:30 EDT

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of open-vm-tools as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat CloudForms 4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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