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TITLE:
VMware Products VMware Tools Two Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39198

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39198/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in multiple VMware products,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially gain
escalated privileges, and by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system.

1) An error related to the unsafe loading of libraries exists in the
VMware Tools package for Windows. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary code on a guest system by tricking a user into clicking a
file placed on a network share.

2) An error in the VMware Tools package for Windows can be exploited
to potentially gain escalated privileges by placing a malicious
executable in a certain location inside a guest operating system.

NOTE: This vulnerability cannot be exploited without administrative
privileges on recent Windows versions (e.g. Windows XP and Windows
Vista).

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products and
versions:
* VMware ESXi versions 3.5 and 4.0
* VMware ESX Server versions 2.5.5, 3.0.3, 3.5, and 4.0
* VMware Server 2.x

SOLUTION:
Apply patches and update VMware Tools in guest operating systems.
Please see the vendor's advisory for more information.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Jure Skofic and Mitja Kolsek of ACROS Security
2) Mitja Kolsek of ACROS Security

CHANGELOG:
2010-04-13: Added reporter links to the "Original Advisory" section.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VMSA-2010-0007:
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html

ACROS Security:
http://www.acrossecurity.com/aspr/ASPR-2010-04-12-1-PUB.txt
http://www.acrossecurity.com/aspr/ASPR-2010-04-12-2-PUB.txt

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