Privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Workstation and Player on Debian GNU/Linux

CVE-2013-1662 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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