CVE-2014-4199 (GCVE-0-2014-4199)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-28 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:04
VLAI
Summary
vm-support 0.88 in VMware Tools, as distributed with VMware Workstation through 10.0.3 and other products, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /tmp.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.osvdb.org/110458 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2014-08-26 00:00
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