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

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when parsing Checkpoint files and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Please see the vendor's advisory for a list of affected products.

Solution
Update to a fixed version (please see the vendor's advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Thorsten Tüllmann.

Original Advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0011.html

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