<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200711-23"> <title>VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> VMware guest operating systems might be able to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the host operating system through multiple flaws. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">vmware-workstation vmware-player</product> <announced>November 18, 2007</announced> <revised>April 16, 2008: 03</revised> <bug>193196</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-emulation/vmware-workstation" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">5.5.5.56455</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">5.5.5.56455</vulnerable> <vulnerable range="eq">6.0.0.45731</vulnerable> </package> <package name="app-emulation/vmware-player" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.0.5.56455</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.5.56455</vulnerable> <vulnerable range="eq">2.0.0.45731</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> VMware Workstation is a virtual machine for developers and system administrators. VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software that can run guests produced by other VMware products. </p> </background> <description> <p> Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in several VMware products. Neel Mehta and Ryan Smith (IBM ISS X-Force) discovered that the DHCP server contains an integer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2007-0062), an integer underflow vulnerability (CVE-2007-0063) and another error when handling malformed packets (CVE-2007-0061), leading to stack-based buffer overflows or stack corruption. Rafal Wojtczvk (McAfee) discovered two unspecified errors that allow authenticated users with administrative or login privileges on a guest operating system to corrupt memory or cause a Denial of Service (CVE-2007-4496, CVE-2007-4497). Another unspecified vulnerability related to untrusted virtual machine images was discovered (CVE-2007-5617). </p> <p> VMware products also shipped code copies of software with several vulnerabilities: Samba (GLSA-200705-15), BIND (GLSA-200702-06), MIT Kerberos 5 (GLSA-200707-11), Vixie Cron (GLSA-200704-11), shadow (GLSA-200606-02), OpenLDAP (CVE-2006-4600), PAM (CVE-2004-0813, CVE-2007-1716), GCC (CVE-2006-3619) and GDB (CVE-2006-4146). </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> Remote attackers within a guest system could possibly exploit these vulnerabilities to execute code on the host system with elevated privileges or to cause a Denial of Service. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All VMware Workstation users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.5.56455"</code> <p> All VMware Player users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/vmware-player-1.0.5.56455"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0813">CVE-2004-0813</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3619">CVE-2006-3619</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4146">CVE-2006-4146</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4600">CVE-2006-4600</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0061">CVE-2007-0061</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0062">CVE-2007-0062</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0063">CVE-2007-0063</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1716">CVE-2007-1716</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4496">CVE-2007-4496</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4497">CVE-2007-4497</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5617">CVE-2007-5617</uri> <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-02.xml">GLSA-200606-02</uri> <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-06.xml">GLSA-200702-06</uri> <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-11.xml">GLSA-200704-11</uri> <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-15.xml">GLSA-200705-15</uri> <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200707-11.xml">GLSA-200707-11</uri> <uri link="http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2007/000001.html">VMSA-2007-0006</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:24:32 +0000"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:06:33 +0000"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:43:42 +0000"> rbu </metadata> </glsa>