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VMware Product(s) Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Privilege escalation

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with VMWare product(s) that are vulnerable to local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

Issue is due to local exploitation of an untrusted library path in vmware-authd. VMware VIX API (Application Program Interface) fails to adequately bounds check user supplied input before copying it to insufficient size buffer.

Affected Software

Affected Software

VMware Player 1.x - before 1.0.7 build 91707 on Linux VMware Player 2.x - before 2.0.4 build 93057 on Linux VMware Server 1.x - before 1.0.6 build 91891 on Linux VMware Workstation 5.x - before 5.5.7 build 91707 on Linux VMware Workstation 6.x - before 6.0.4 build 93057 on Linux

Solution

Solution

Upgrade VMware Product(s) to below version, VMware Player 1.0.7 build 91707 or 2.0.4 build 93057 or later VMware Server 1.0.6 build 91891 or later VMware Workstation 5.5.7 build 91707 or 6.0.4 build 93057 or later.

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