Security Advisory SA39110 - VMware Remote Console Plugin Format String Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA39110

VMware Remote Console Plugin Format String Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA39110

Release Date

2010-04-09

Last Update

2010-04-15

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

VMware Remote Console 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-3732 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in VMware Remote Console, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error in the VMware Remote Console (VMrc) plugin and can be exploited to potentially corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Update to a fixed version by visiting WebAccess on an updated vCenter 4.0 or ESX 4.0 system. Please see the vendor's advisory for more information.

Provided and/or discovered by
Alexey Sintsov, Digital Security Research Group.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
VMSA-2010-0007:
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html

Digital Security Research Group:
http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=153

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