ubuntu · CVE-2015-5191

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Priority: low Published: 2017-07-28 21:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:41:06 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2015-5191 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (open-vm-tools), 15 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 12, released 2, ignored 1.

Description:

VMware Tools prior to 10.0.9 contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded paths under /tmp. Successful exploitation of this issue may result in a local privilege escalation. CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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