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CVE-2013-1662
Published: Aug 24, 2013
Modified: Sep 17, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsb_release binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.html
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http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html
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