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CVE-2010-4295

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 301…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
VmwareWorkstation
Versions 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.1.1, 7.1.2
VmwarePlayer
Versions 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2
VmwareServer
Version 2.0.2
VmwareFusion
Versions 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2

Weakness classification

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