Privilege escalation through race condition in VMware mounting process

CVE-2010-4295 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Race condition in the mounting process in vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 7.x before 7.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Server 2.0.2 on Linux, and VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 332101 allows host OS users to gain privileges via vectors involving temporary files.

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