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VMWare Products Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:

SA26890

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Release Date:

2007-09-20

Last Update:

2007-10-23

Popularity:

19,696 views

Critical:

Moderately critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation
DoS
System access

Where:

From local network

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

OS:

VMware ESX Server 2.x
VMware ESX Server 3.x

Software:

VMware ACE 1.x
VMware ACE 2.x
VMware Player 1.x
VMware Player 2.x
VMware Server 1.x
VMware Workstation 5.x
VMware Workstation 6.x

Binary Analysis:

BA233 :: Available for 1 Credit

BA236 :: Available for 1 Credit

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Solution:
Update to the latest version or apply patches.

-- VMware ESX 3.0.1 --

Patch Bundle ESX-8258730:
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-8258730-patch.html
md5sum a06d0e36e403b0fe6bc6fbc76220a86d

-- VMware ESX 3.0.0 --

Patch Bundle ESX-4809553:
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-4809553-patch.html
md5sum cd363526aab5fa6c45bf2509cb5ae500

NOTE: The vendor recommends users to update to version 3.0.1 as 3.0.0 is nearing its End-of-life.

-- VMware ESX 2.5.4 --
Apply patch 10 (Build# 53326)
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200708-patch.html
md5sum 8f29f906e0f3c8605a203f914f36b3d1

-- VMWare ESX 2.5.3 --
Apply patch 13 (Build# 52488)
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-253-200708-patch.html
md5sum 32ba19deb7af268ab357710145f8659b

NOTE: The vendor recommends users to update to version 2.5.4 or later as 2.5.3 is nearing its End-of-life.

-- VMware ESX 2.1.3 --
Apply patch 8 (Build# 53228)
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx-213-200708-patch.html
md5sum 32f9f87a99c5c801dd61492a9d91dfe2

NOTE: The vendor recommends users to update to version 2.5.4 or later as 2.1.3 is nearing its End-of-life.

-- VMware ESX 2.0.2 --
Apply patch 8 (Build# 52650)
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/esx-202-200708-patch.html
md5sum f36bb75b51f79e4ba2a2f01a71c3bb08

NOTE: The vendor recommends users to update to version 2.5.4 or later as 2.0.2 is nearing its End-of-life.

-- VMware Workstation 6.0.0 --
Update to version 6.0.1 (Build# 55017)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/

-- VMware Workstation 5.5.4 --
Update to version 5.5.5 (Build# 56455)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ws5.html

-- VMware Player 2.0.0 --
Update to version 2.0.1 (Build# 55017)
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

-- VMware Player 1.0.4 --
Update to version 1.0.5 (Build# 56455)
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

-- VMware Server 1.0.3 --
Update to version 1.0.4 (Build# 56528)
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

-- VMware ACE 2.0.0 --
Update to version 2.0.1 (Build# 55017)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ace/

-- VMware ACE 1.0.3 --
Update to version 1.0.4 (Build# 54075)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ace/

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits:
1-2) Rafal Wojtczvk, McAfee
3-5) Neel Mehta and Ryan Smith, IBM ISS X-Force
6) Foundstone

Changelog:
2007-09-20: Updated advisory and added additional links.
2007-09-25: Added CVE reference.
2007-10-23: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
VMWare:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html#601
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#555
http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html#resolved
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html#new_201
http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html#105
http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html#201
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html

IBM ISS X-Force:
http://www.iss.net/threats/275.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33103
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33102
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33101

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