National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1876

Overview

VMware Workstation before 5.5.4, when running a 64-bit Windows guest on a 64-bit host, allows local users to "corrupt the virtual machine's register context" by debugging a local program and stepping into a "syscall instruction."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#554

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#554

External Source: XF

Name: vmware-windebugging-unspecified(33993)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33993

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1592

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1592

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018011

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018011

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070518 VMSA-2007-0004.1 Updated: Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed and directory traversal vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/469011/30/6510/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070507 VMSA-2007-0004 Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/467936/30/6690/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25079

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25079

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 35509

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/35509

External Source: BID

Name: 23732

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23732