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VMware Products Trap Flag In-Guest Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Linux)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

General

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 privilege escalation vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The issue is due to an error in the CPU hardware emulation while handling the trap flag.

Affected Software

Affected Software

VMware Server 1.x - 1.0.7 on Linux VMware Player 1.x - 1.0.8 and 2.x - 2.0.5 on Linux VMware Workstation 6.0.5 and earlier on all Linux

Solution

Solution

Upgrade VMware to the latest version.

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