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TITLE:
VMware Fusion Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36928

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36928/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware Fusion, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
or gain escalated privileges.

1) An unspecified file permission error in the vmx86 kernel extension
can be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the context of the
host's system kernel.

2) An integer overflow error in the vmx86 kernel extension can be
exploited to cause a DoS.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 2.0.5 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.6 build 196839.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Neil Kettle of Convergent Network Solutions.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VMSA-2009-0013:
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000066.html

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