CVE-2013-1662 | BDVDB-2026-57116 Detail

Description#

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.html
http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12013-08-24Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-09-17Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.