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Posted on 06 May 2012
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TITLE:
VMware Workstation / Player / Fusion Two Privilege Escalation
Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49032
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-05-04
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DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware Workstation, VMware
Player, and VMware Fusion, which can be exploited by malicious, local
users in a guest virtual machine to gain escalated privileges.
For more information see vulnerabilities #3 and #4 in:
SA49019
The vulnerability is reported in the following products:
* VMware Workstation prior to 8.0.3.
* VMware Player prior to 4.0.3.
* VMware Fusion prior to 4.1.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version.
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VMSA-2012-0009:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html
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