VSR identified multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Tools, a suite of utilities shipped by VMware with multiple product offerings, as well as by open-source distributions as the open-vm-tools package. The first of these issues results in a minor information disclosure vulnerability, while the second two issues may result in privilege escalation in a VMware guest with VMware Tools installed.
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VMware Security Advisory 2011-0009 - VMware hosted product updates, ESX patches and VI Client update resolve multiple security issues.
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