Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package open-vm-tools-sdmp (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-OPENVMTOOLSSDMP-3188598
- published4 Jan 2023
- disclosed23 Nov 2022
Introduced: 23 Nov 2022
CVE-2009-1143 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools-sdmp package and not the open-vm-tools-sdmp package as distributed by RHEL.
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).