CVE-2015-5191 — VMware Tools prior to 10.0.9 contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded paths under /tmp

Matched remediation archetype

Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization

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Check exposure

• Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
• Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
• Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.

Remediate safely

• Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
• Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
• Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.