MGASA-2017-0354

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    MGASA-2017-0354

    Published: 5 Oct 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-5191

    Summary: Updated open-vm-tools packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that open-vm-tools has multiple /tmp race conditions in the libDeployPkg component, allowing an unprivileged local user in a guest to cause a denial of service through file system manipulation, or, possibly, increase privileges (CVE-2015-5191).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0354.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20323, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/3QIKOPGHT5CTPEKNYZDCSQ6O5CAOJHBO/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: open-vm-tools

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -10.1.5-2.1.mga6

    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