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TITLE:
VMware ACE Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31710

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31710/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
VMWare ACE 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/15772/
VMware ACE 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/6593/

DESCRIPTION:
VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware ACE, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges
and by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

1) Various vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors
within certain ActiveX controls. These can be exploited to e.g.
execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a malicious
website.

2) An unspecified error related to "OpenProcess" can be exploited by
malicious, local users on a host system to gain escalated privileges
on the host system.

This vulnerability affects VMware ACE 1.x for Windows only.

SOLUTION:
VMware ACE 1.x:
Update to version 1.0.7 build 108880 or later.

VMware ACE 2.x:
Update to version 2.0.5 build 109488 or later.

http://www.vmware.com/download/ace/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Julien Bachmann, Shennan Wang, Shinnai, and
Michal Bucko.
2) The vendor credits Sun Bing, McAfee.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-August/064118.html

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