[CVE-2015-5191] local privilege escalation in Open VMware Tools

[VMware Security Response Center <security () vmware com>]

Open VMware Tools (CVE-2015-5191) contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded 
paths under /tmp.
Successful exploitation may result in a local privilege escalation. The impact of this vulnerability is low for 
distributions which have enabled PrivateTmp for the affected service.
Fixes/References
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9.10.x – https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/c1304ce8bfd9c0c33999e496bf7049d5c3d45821
10.0.x - https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/b3068b04880eda4ca3e13f2d34fb8ce336ad1a4f
10.1.x - https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/22e58289f71232310d30cf162b83b5151a937bac
We would like to thank Florian Weimer and Kurt Seifried of Red Hat Product Security for reporting this issue to us.

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Edward Hawkins
Senior Program Manager, Security Response
security () vmware com