Two vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware Workstation, VMware Player, and VMware Fusion, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to gain escalated privileges.

For more information see vulnerabilities #3 and #4 in:
SA49019

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products:
* VMware Workstation prior to 8.0.3.
* VMware Player prior to 4.0.3.
* VMware Fusion prior to 4.1.3.

Solution
Update to a fixed version.
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Changelog
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Original Advisory
VMSA-2012-0009:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html

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