CVE-2008-1362 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1362
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Description: VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3 and 5.5.x before 5.5.6, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3 and 1.0.x before 1.0.6, VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 and 1.0.x before 1.0.5, and VMware Server 1.0.x before 1.0.5 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service by impersonating the authd process through an unspecified use of an "insecurely created named pipe," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1361.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41259 ST 1019621 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755 MLIST http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded BID 28276

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