Title: VMware Symlink Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
Description:
VMware is software that runs multiple virtual computers on a single PC, at the same time, without partitioning or rebooting.
Certain versions of the VMWare for Linux product do not perform /tmp file sanity checking and create files in the /tmp directory which will follow symlinks. This may be used by a malicious user to overwrite any file (with log data) which falls within the write permissions of the user ID which VMWare excecutes as. Typically this is root. This attack will most likely result in a denial of service and not a root level compromise.
Affected Products:
- VMWare VMWare 1.0.1
- VMWare VMWare 1.0.2
- VMWare VMWare 1.1.0
- VMWare VMWare 1.1.1
- VMWare VMWare 1.1.2
References:
- VMware: VMware Homepage
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