National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-4295

Overview

Race condition in the mounting process in vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 7.x before 7.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Server 2.0.2 on Linux, and VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 332101 allows host OS users to gain privileges via vectors involving temporary files.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-3116

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3116

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0018.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0018.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1024820

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024820

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1024819

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024819

External Source: BID

Name: 45167

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45167

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20101203 VMSA-2010-0018 VMware hosted products and ESX patches resolve multiple security issues

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/514995/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42482

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42482

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42453

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42453

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 69585

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/69585

External Source: MLIST

Name: [security-announce] 20101202 VMSA-2010-0018 VMware hosted products and ESX patches resolve multiple security issues

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000112.html