CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-1662

Published: Aug 24, 2013 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Workstation Vmware 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.0.18997 (including) 8.0.0.18997 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.1 (including) 8.0.1 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.1.27038 (including) 8.0.1.27038 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.2 (including) 8.0.2 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.3 (including) 8.0.3 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.4 (including) 8.0.4 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.5 (including) 8.0.5 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.6 (including) 8.0.6 (including)
Workstation Vmware 9.0 (including) 9.0 (including)
Workstation Vmware 9.0.1 (including) 9.0.1 (including)
Workstation Vmware 9.0.2 (including) 9.0.2 (including)

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