CVE-2006-3589 - Secunia.com

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-3589
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27881 ST 1016536 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA21120 Secunia Advisory: SA23680 OSVDB 27418 CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200612-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-253-200612-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx-213-200612-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/esx-202-200612-patch.html http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2467205 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/456546/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/441082/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/440583/100/0/threaded BID 19062 19060

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