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Secunia Advisory SA27706

Gentoo update for vmware
Secunia Advisory SA27706
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Release Date 2007-11-19
   
Popularity 8,919 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Gentoo Linux

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-0813 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-1174 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-3619 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4146 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4600 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-0061 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-0062 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-0063 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-0494 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-1716 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-1856 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-2442 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-2443 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-2446 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-2447 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-2798 CVSS available in Customer Area
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CVE-2007-5617 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for vmware. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions, perform certain actions with escalated privileges, or to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions, and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA26890
SA26909


Solution
Update to "app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.5.56455" or later and "app-emulation/vmware-player-1.0.5.56455" or later.
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml

Other references
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Deep Links
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