vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsb_release binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function.
No PoCs from references.
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/capturePointer/libxploit
- https://github.com/dcppkieffjlpodter/libxploit
- https://github.com/kostyll/libxploit