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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801322
Category:General
Title:VMware Products USB Service Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Windows)
Summary:The host is installed with VMWare products and are prone to local; privilege escalation vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
The host is installed with VMWare products and are prone to local
privilege escalation vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The flaw is due to error in 'USB' service which allows host OS users to gain
privileges by placing a Trojan horse program at an unspecified location on the host OS disk.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation will allow attacker to modify arbitrary memory
locations in guest kernel memory and gain privileges.

Affected Software/OS:
Vmware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600,
VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600 ion windows.

Solution:
Upgrade to Vmware Player 3.0.1 build 227600,

upgrade VMware Workstation 7.0.1 build 227600

CVSS Score:
6.9

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 39397
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-1140
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39397
Bugtraq: 20100409 VMSA-2010-0007 VMware hosted products, vCenter Server and ESX patches resolve multiple security issues (Google Search)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023834
http://secunia.com/advisories/39206
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH

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