[ GLSA 200711-23 ] VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200711-23)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: November 18, 2007
Updated: April 16, 2008
Bug(s): #193196
ID: 200711-23

Synopsis

VMware guest operating systems might be able to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the host operating system through multiple flaws.

Background

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.

Affected Packages

Package: app-emulation/vmware-workstation
Vulnerable: < 5.5.5.56455
Vulnerable: = 6.0.0.45731
Unaffected: >= 5.5.5.56455
Architectures: All supported architectures

Package: app-emulation/vmware-player
Vulnerable: < 1.0.5.56455
Vulnerable: = 2.0.0.45731
Unaffected: >= 1.0.5.56455
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

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). 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).

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All VMware Workstation users should upgrade to the latest version: