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Secunia Advisory SA9474

VMware Workstation Allows Deletion of Arbitrary Files
Secunia Advisory SA9474
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Release Date 2003-08-08
Last Update 2003-08-26
   
Popularity 8,564 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where From remote
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
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
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 for Linux allowing malicious users on the host operating system to delete arbitrary files.

The problem is that malicious users can manipulate symlinks and cause VMware to delete arbitrary files.

VMware Workstation 4.0.1 for Linux build 5289 and earlier is affected by this.


Solution
The latest version is not vulnerable:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Paul Szabo

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

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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