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Secunia Advisory SA9348

VMware Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory SA9348
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Release Date 2003-07-24
Last Update 2003-08-26
   
Popularity 9,808 views
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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 Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
VMware ESX Server 1.x
VMware GSX Server 2.x
VMware Workstation 2.x
VMware Workstation 3.x
VMware Workstation 4.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2003-0631 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in VMware Workstation, VMware GSX Server and VMware ESX Server on Linux allowing malicious local users to escalate their privileges.

The problem is that VMware uses environment variables in an insecure manner. This could be used by an un-privileged user on the host system to open a root shell.

This affects VMware GSX Server 2.5.1 and earlier on Linux, VMware Workstation 4.0 and earlier on Linux and VMware ESX Server on Linux..


Solution
A patch is available for VMware GSX Server 2.5.1:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Paul Szabo

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1039

Deep Links
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