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

For more information see vulnerabilities #1, #3, and #4 in:
SA49019

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products:
* VMware Workstation prior to version 7.1.6.
* VMware Player prior to versions 3.1.6.

Solution
Update to a fixed version.
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