Summary
The host is installed with VMWare product(s) that are vulnerable to local privilege escalation 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.
Impact Level : System
Solution
Upgrade VMware Product(s) to below version,
VMware Player 1.0.6 build 80404 or later
www.vmware.com/download/player/
VMware Server 1.0.5 build 80187 or later
www.vmware.com/download/server/
VMware Workstation 5.5.6 build 80404 or later
www.vmware.com/download/ws/
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.
Affected
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
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-5671 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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