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Secunia Advisory SA39981

VMware vMA sudo Privilege Escalation Security Issues
Secunia Advisory SA39981
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Release Date 2010-05-28
   
Popularity 1,611 view
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
VMware vMA 4.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2010-0426 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0427 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

VMware has acknowledged some security issues in VMware vMA, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

1) An error exists within the handling of the "sudoedit" command.

2) The application does not properly reset certain group permissions when the "runas_default" option is used.

For more information:
SA38659


Solution
Restrict access to trusted users only.
Original Advisory
VMSA-2010-0009:
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000093.html

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