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VMware Server Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA31708
Release Date: 2008-09-01
Last Update: 2008-10-06
Popularity: 5,973 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:VMware Server 1.x

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Description:
VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware Server, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system.

1) Various vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors within certain ActiveX controls. These can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website.

2) An unspecified error when processing malformed requests exists within the ISAPI Extension. This can be exploited to cause a DoS by sending specially crafted requests to a vulnerable system.

3) An unspecified error related to "OpenProcess" can be exploited by malicious, local users on a host system to gain escalated privileges on the host system.

4) Some vulnerabilities in freetype can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA30600

5) An error in the emulation of "JMP" instructions to "non-canonical" 64-bit addresses can be exploited to run arbitrary code with escalated privileges inside a VMware guest.

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