---------------------------------------------------------------------- Secunia Research and vulnerability disclosures coordinated by Secunia: http://secunia.com/research/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: VMware Workstation "vmrun" Privilege Escalation Security Issue SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA43885 VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/43885/ Customer Area (Credentials Required) https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=43885 RELEASE DATE: 2011-03-31 DISCUSS ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/43885/#comments AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Last Update * Popularity * Comments * Criticality Level * Impact * Where * Solution Status * Operating System / Software * CVE Reference(s) http://secunia.com/advisories/43885/ ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Authentication Level * Report Reliability * Secunia PoC * Secunia Analysis * Systems Affected * Approve Distribution * Remediation Status * Secunia CVSS Score * CVSS https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=43885 ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI: * AUTOMATED SCANNING http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/ 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: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ DEEP LINKS: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED DESCRIPTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED SOLUTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXPLOIT: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------