Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 28, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jun 6, 2011
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Last updated
Jan 28, 2023
Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.
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