DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1787

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1787

    Published: 6 Jun 2011Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2011-1787

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1787

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: open-vm-tools

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High