Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800005
Category:	Privilege escalation
Title:	VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (VMSA-2008-0009) - Linux
Summary:	VMWare product(s) are prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: VMWare product(s) are prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: An input validation error is present in the Windows-based VMware HGFS.sys driver. Exploitation of this flaw might result in arbitrary code execution on the guest system by an unprivileged guest user. The HGFS.sys driver is present in the guest operating system if the VMware Tools package is loaded on Windows based Guest OS. Vulnerability Impact: Successful exploitation could result in guest OS users to modify arbitrary memory locations in guest kernel memory and gain privileges. Issue still exists even if the host has HGFS disabled and has no shared folders. Affected Software/OS: VMware Player 1.x - before 1.0.6 build 80404 on Linux VMware Server 1.x - before 1.0.5 build 80187 on Linux VMware Workstation 5.x - before 5.5.6 build 80404 on Linux Solution: Upgrade VMware Product(s) to below version, VMware Player 1.0.6 build 80404 or later VMware Server 1.0.5 build 80187 or later VMware Workstation 5.5.6 build 80404 or later. CVSS Score: 4.4 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5671 Bugtraq: 20080604 VMSA-2008-0009 Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion, VMware Server, VMware VIX API, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi resolve critical security issues (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20080606 Re: iDefense Security Advisory 06.04.08: VMware Tools HGFS Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493148/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493172/100/0/threaded http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=712 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5358 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5688 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020197 http://secunia.com/advisories/30556 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3922 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744
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