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TITLE:
VMware Products "vmware-mount" Privilege Escalation Security Issues

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42453

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=42453

RELEASE DATE:
2010-12-04

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DESCRIPTION:
Some security issues have been reported in VMware Workstation,
Player, and Fusion, which can be exploited by malicious, local users
to gain escalated privileges.

1) Race conditions within the "vmware-mount" utility when handling
temporary files during the mounting process can be exploited to e.g.
create files or directories.

2) An error within the "vmware-mount" utility when loading libraries
can be exploited execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Note: The security issues only affect the Linux version of VMware
Workstation and Player and VMware Fusion for Mac OS/X.

SOLUTION:
Update to a patched version.

Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Dan Rosenberg
2) The vendor credits Martin Carpenter

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VMSA-2010-0018:
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000112.html

1) http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/drosenbe/research.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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