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VMware Products Guest Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA37172

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Release Date:

2009-10-28

Popularity:

1,243 views

Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

OS:

VMware ESX Server 2.x
VMware ESX Server 3.x
VMware ESX Server 4.x
VMware ESXi 3.x
VMware ESXi 4.x

Software:

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

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in various VMware products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to gain escalated privileges.

An error when setting the #PF exception code can be exploited to gain escalated privileges within the VMware guest.

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