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TITLE:
VMware ESX Server Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48959

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/48959/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=48959

RELEASE DATE:
2012-04-27

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/48959/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
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 * Impact
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=48959

ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
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DESCRIPTION:
VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware ESX Server,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual
machine to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise the vulnerable
system.

For more information:
SA42175
SA44711
SA45325
SA45695
SA46632
SA47967

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 4.1 and 4.0.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VMSA-2012-0008:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0008.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

DEEP LINKS:
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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
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