Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in various VMware products, which could be exploited by local or remote attackers to bypass security restrictions, cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system.
The first issue is caused by an input validation error in the "HGFS.sys" driver, which could allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code on the guest system.
The second vulnerability is caused by an untrusted library path error in "vmware-authd", which could be exploited by local unprivileged attackers to execute arbitrary code on the Linux host system.
The third issue is caused by an error within the processing of "Content-Length" headers in the openwsman management service, which may allow unprivileged users to gain root privileges.
The fourth vulnerability is caused by buffer overflow errors in the VIX Application Programming Interface (API), which may result in code execution on the host system or on the service console in ESX Server from the guest operating system.
Other issues have also been addressed. These vulnerabilities are related to : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-1306 - FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0430 - FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0061 - FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0913 - FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0922
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Stephen Fewer (Harmony Security), iDefense Labs, Alexander Sotirov (VMware Security Research), and the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-06-05 : Initial release
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