National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0923

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMWare ACE 1.0.2 and 2.0.2, Player 1.0.4 and 2.0.2, and Workstation 5.5.4 and 6.0.2 allows guest OS users to read and write arbitrary files on the host OS via a multibyte string that produces a wide character string containing .. (dot dot) sequences, which bypasses the protection mechanism, as demonstrated using a "%c0%2e%c0%2e" string.

Impact

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0905

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0679

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0679

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1019493

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019493

External Source: BID

Name: 27944

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27944

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080225 CORE-2007-0930 Path Traversal vulnerability in VMware's shared folders implementation

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488725/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2129

Hyperlink:http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2129

External Source: XF

Name: vmware-sharedfolders-directory-traversal(40837)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/40837

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html

External Source: BID

Name: 28276

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080318 VMSA-2008-0005 Updated VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware Server, VMware ACE, and VMware Fusion resolve critical security issues

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3700

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3700

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29117

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29117

External Source: MLIST

Name: [security-announce] 20080317 VMSA-2008-0005 Updated VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware Server, VMware ACE, and VMware Fusion resolve critical security issues

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20080225 CORE-2007-0930 Path Traversal vulnerability in VMware's shared folders implementation

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-February/060457.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004034

Hyperlink:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004034