National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4279

Overview

The CPU hardware emulation for 64-bit guest operating systems in VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488 and 5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000; Player 2.0.x before 2.0.5 build 109488 and 1.x before 1.0.8; Server 1.x before 1.0.7 build 108231; and ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5 allows authenticated guest OS users to gain additional guest OS privileges by triggering an exception that causes the virtual CPU to perform an indirect jump to a non-canonical address.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html

External Source: XF

Name: vmware-esxesxi-jump-privilege-escalation(45668)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45668

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2740

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2740

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020991

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020991

External Source: BID

Name: 31569

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31569

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/497041/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32180

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32180

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32179

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32179

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32157

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32157

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5929

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5929

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20081004 VMware Emulation Flaw x64 Guest Privilege Escalation (1/2)

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-October/064860.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5929

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5929