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| Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801560 |
| Category: | Privilege escalation |
| Title: | VMware Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (VMSA-2010-0018) - Linux |
| Summary: | VMware products are prone to a local privilege escalation; vulnerability. |
| Description: | Summary: VMware products are prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: The flaw is due to an error in Tools update functionality, which allows host OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS via unspecified vectors. Vulnerability Impact: Successful exploitation will allow attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges, this may aid in other attacks. Affected Software/OS: VMware Server version 2.x VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.5 build 328052 and 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 301548 VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.5 build 328052 and 7.x before 7.1.2 build 301548 Solution: No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one. CVSS Score: 7.2 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-4297 BugTraq ID: 45166 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45166 Bugtraq: 20101203 VMSA-2010-0018 VMware hosted products and ESX patches resolve multiple security issues (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514995/100/0/threaded http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000112.html http://osvdb.org/69590 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024819 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024820 http://secunia.com/advisories/42480 http://secunia.com/advisories/42482 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3116 |
| Copyright | Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG |
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