Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in VMware Horizon Client for Linux

CVE-2018-6964 · HIGH Severity

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

VMware Horizon Client for Linux (4.x before 4.8.0 and prior) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to insecure usage of SUID binary. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root on a Linux machine where Horizon Client is installed.

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