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VMware Products Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA25079  
Release Date: 2007-05-01
Last Update: 2007-05-21

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:VMware ESX Server 2.x
VMware ESX Server 3.x

Software:VMware ACE 1.x
VMware Player 1.x
VMware Server 1.x
VMware Workstation 5.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-1069 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-1337 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-1744 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-1876 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-1877 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in various VMware products, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or bypass certain security restrictions.

1) An error exists within the ACPI implementation of the virtual machine process (VMX) when collecting information about running states of virtual machines, which can be exploited to cause the process to read from invalid memory locations.

2) An error within the saving of configuration data in VMDB files can be exploited to store malformed configuration data and cause a DoS on guest operating systems.

3) An error within the handling of general protection faults (GPFs) in Windows guest operating systems can be exploited to crash Windows virtual machines.

4) Errors when debugging applications in a 64-bit Windows guest operating system on a 64-bit host system can be exploited to e.g. cause corrupted stack pointers or kernel bugchecks.

5) A design error within the "Shared Folders" feature can be exploited in a guest system to read and write arbitrary files on a host system.

Successful exploitation requires that at least one folder is shared. In order to write to host files, the "read only" option of the shared folder has to be disabled. ESX server is reportedly not affected as it does not use the "Shared Folders" feature.

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Solution:
Update to the latest versions or apply patches.

* VMware Workstation 5.5.4, Build 44386:
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/

* VMware Server 1.0.3, Build 44356:
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

* VMware Player 1.0.4, Build 44386:
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

* VMware ACE 1.03, Build 44385:
http://www.vmware.com/download/ace/

* VMware ESX Server 3.0.1:

ESX-6856573
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-6856573-patch.html
md5sum 16bb030929bb005fe26c09f637cb9cd8

ESX-6431040
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-6431040-patch.html
md5sum ef6bc745b3d556e0736fd39b8ddc8087

ESX-6704314
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-6704314-patch.html
md5sum 2470567517a64726b1c5929c59ed6134

ESX-5095559
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-5095559-patch.html
md5sum bcded4127598c22d47f06ab03366d2f8

* VMware ESX Server 3.0.0:

ESX-3496682
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3496682-patch.html
md5sum 929c6830a4cdc939b0b2a35e83e3b1ac

ESX-5754280
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-5754280-patch.html
md5sum 82b3c7e18dd1422f30c4aa9e477c6a27

ESX-1256636
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-1256636-patch.html
md5sum e7f0b1920bd2a609d1c3b18249717f2c

ESX-7104553
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-7104553-patch.html
md5sum 81c4f33331a4cbc565c1d9a44b1ea4fc

* VMware ESX Server 2.5.4:
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200704-patch.html
md5sum ef4d601c130c7a08176827252bc01152

* VMware ESX Server 2.5.3:
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-253-200704-patch.html
md5sum be048c744cdcd71b3da92098efe06f08

* VMware ESX Server 2.1.3:
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx-213-200704-patch.html
md5sum 2dfc6aca32c77d673b0f7a1295ad7609

* VMware ESX Server 2.0.2:
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/esx-202-200704-patch.html
md5sum 0e997bd53d94dff2d9452e5679bd1b3c

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Tavis Ormandy, Google
2) Sungard Ixsecurity
3) Ruben Santamarta, Reversemode
4) Ken Johnson
5) Greg MacManus, iDefense Labs

Changelog:
2007-05-03: Added additional affected products and fix information. Updated vendor links.
2007-05-08: Updated advisory based on new information from vendor. Added additional links as well as affected product and fix information.
2007-05-21: Added additional link, affected product, and fix information.

Original Advisory:
VMware:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#554
http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html#resolved
http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html#104
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-May/054161.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-May/063436.html

3) Reversemode:
http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?...;Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=49

5) iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=521



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