CVE-2018-6964

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-6964
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-29 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionVMware 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Application Vmware Horizon Client All All All All
Application Vmware Horizon Client All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VMSA-2018-0014 CONFIRM www.vmware.com Vendor Advisory
VMware Horizon Client Insecure suid Binary Lets Local Users Obtain Root Privileges - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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