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VMWare Workstation For Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : VMWare Workstation For Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-0162
CVE ID : CVE-2005-0444
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-02-15

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A new vulnerability was identified in VMWare Workstation, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges [...]

Affected Products

VMWare Workstation 4.5.2 and earlier (for Linux)

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Tavis Ormandy

ChangeLog

2005-02-15 : Initial release
2005-02-16 : Updated CVE

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