cve/2006/CVE-2006-3589.md

### [CVE-2006-3589](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/esx-202-200612-patch.html

#### Github
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