KLA10386 Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in VMware products. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, inject arbitrary scripts, execute arbitrary code and obtain sensitive information. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

1. Insecure file rendering can be exploited locally by overwriting index.htm;
2. Buffer overflows, improper handling of compressed data and memory leaks can be exploited remotely via a specially designed PNG image;
3. Improper request handling can be exploited via a specially designed request.

Original advisories

VMware bulletin

Related products

VMware-Workstation

VMware-Player

VMware-ACE

CVE list

CVE-2010-0425 critical

CVE-2010-0434 warning

CVE-2010-1205 critical

CVE-2010-0205 warning

CVE-2010-2249 warning

CVE-2010-3277 warning

Solution

Update to latest version

VMWare Products

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• OSI

Obtain sensitive information. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to capturing by abuser information, critical for user or system.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• CI

Code injection. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to changes in target code.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

Affected Products

• VMware Workstation verisons 7.1.1 and earlierVMware Player versions 3.1.1 and earlierVMware ACE Management Server versions 2.7.1 and earlier