Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in VMware Workstation, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain potentially escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
VMware Workstation "vmrun" Privilege Escalation Security Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43885
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-03-31
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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in VMware Workstation, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to gain potentially escalated
privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the vmrun utility incorrectly
loading libraries from a certain directory. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running vmrun by
causing the utility to load a malicious shared library.
Note: This only affects the Linux version.
SOLUTION:
Update VMware Workstation or apply a fixed version of the vmrun
utility.
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Tim Brown.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VMSA-2011-0006:
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0006.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
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http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/
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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
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