CVE-2013-1662

EPSS 4.6%

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40169unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/27938unverified

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References

http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.html