Security Advisory SA39203 - VMware Fusion 3 Virtual Networking Information Disclosure

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Secunia Advisory SA39203

VMware Fusion 3 Virtual Networking Information Disclosure

Secunia Advisory

SA39203

Release Date

2010-04-09

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

VMware Fusion 3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-1138 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in VMware Fusion, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the implementation of the virtual networking stack. This can be exploited from a guest operating system to disclose certain memory from the host "vmware-vmx" process.

Solution
Update to version 3.0.1 build 232708 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Johann MacDonagh.

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

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