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Secunia Advisory: SA29413
Release Date: 2008-03-17
Last Update: 2008-04-01
Popularity: 7,894 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:VMware ACE 1.x
VMware ACE 2.x
VMware Player 1.x
VMware Player 2.x
VMware Workstation 5.x
VMware Workstation 6.x

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Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

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

1) Vulnerabilities in "authd" and the handling of named pipes can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA29412

2) Some vulnerabilities in OpenSSL can potentially be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA21709
SA22130


3) Some vulnerabilities in libpng can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA27093

4) Improper registered services can be exploited to gain escalated privileges on Windows 2000 hosts.

This is related to vulnerability #6 in:
SA26890

5) An unspecified error in the DHCP service can be exploited to cause a DoS.

NOTE: This issue doesn't affect the latest versions of VMware Workstation 6.x, VMware Player 2.x, and ACE 2.x.

6) An error due to insecure file permissions on "config.ini" can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

For more information see vulnerability #3 in:
SA29412

7) An unspecified error in the Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) can be exploited to crash the host system.

Change Page:
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