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TITLE:
VMware ESX Server / ESXi Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48378

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/48378/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=48378

RELEASE DATE:
2012-03-16

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware ESX Server and
VMware ESXi, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An unspecified error in the WDDM display driver can be exploited
to cause a buffer overflow.

2) A null-pointer dereference error exists in the XPDM display
driver. 

3) The application bundles a vulnerable version of bzip2.

For more information:
SA41452

Note: This vulnerability only affects ESXi version 5.0.

The vulnerabilities are reported in ESX Server versions 4.1 and 4.0
and ESXi versions 5.0, 4.1, and 4.0.

SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version (see the vendor's advisory for details).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1, 2) The vendor credits Tarjei Mandt.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0005.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
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EXPLOIT:
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