Information Exposure Affecting open-vm-tools package, versions <2:9.2.2-893683-8


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-OPENVMTOOLS-517048
  • published22 Apr 2013
  • disclosed22 Apr 2013

Introduced: 22 Apr 2013

CVE-2013-3237  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 open-vm-tools to version 2:9.2.2-893683-8 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools package and not the open-vm-tools package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

The vsock_stream_sendmsg function in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1