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Tracker / CVE-2006-3589

CVE-2006-3589

Low 3.6

vmware-config.pl in VMware for Linux, ESX Server 2.x, and Infrastructure 3 does not check the return code from a Perl chmod function call, which might cause an SSL key file to be created with an unsafe umask that allows local users to read or modify the SSL key.

Affected products and versions

vmware esx
vmware infrastructure
vmware player
vmware server
vmware workstation

Analysis

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