National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1363

Overview

VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3 and 5.5.x before 5.5.6, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3 and 1.0.x before 1.0.6, VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 and 1.0.x before 1.0.5, and VMware Server 1.0.x before 1.0.5 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via an unspecified manipulation of a config.ini file located in an Application Data folder, which can be used for "hijacking the VMX process."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

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

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html

External Source: CONFIRM

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

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: BID

Name: 28276

Type: Patch Information

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

External Source: XF

Name: vmware-config-privilege-escalation(41252)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41252

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0905

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

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: SECTRACK

Name: 1019622

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1019622

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3755

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-201209-25

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml

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