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TITLE:
VMware Workstation / Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50093

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http://secunia.com/advisories/50093/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=50093

RELEASE DATE:
2012-08-17

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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware Workstation and
VMware Player, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a
guest virtual machine to gain escalated privileges.

For more information see vulnerabilities #1, #3, and #4 in:
SA49019

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products:
* VMware Workstation prior to version 7.1.6.
* VMware Player prior to versions 3.1.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version.

Further details available in Customer Area:
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html

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EXPLOIT:
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