Advisories ยป MGASA-2017-0354

Updated open-vm-tools packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Oct 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2015-5191

Description

It was discovered that open-vm-tools has multiple /tmp race conditions
in the libDeployPkg component, allowing an unprivileged local user in a
guest to cause a denial of service through file system manipulation, or,
possibly, increase privileges (CVE-2015-5191).
                

References

SRPMS

6/core