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<glsa id="201209-25">
  <title>VMware Player, Server, Workstation: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VMware Player, Server,
    and Workstation, allowing remote and local attackers to conduct several
    attacks, including privilege escalation, remote execution of arbitrary
    code, and a Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vmware-server vmware-player vmware-workstation</product>
  <announced>September 29, 2012</announced>
  <revised>September 29, 2012: 2</revised>
  <bug>213548</bug>
  <bug>224637</bug>
  <bug>236167</bug>
  <bug>245941</bug>
  <bug>265139</bug>
  <bug>282213</bug>
  <bug>297367</bug>
  <bug>335866</bug>
  <bug>385727</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/vmware-player" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">2.5.5.328052</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-emulation/vmware-workstation" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">6.5.5.328052</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-emulation/vmware-server" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">1.0.9.156507</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>VMware Player, Server, and Workstation allow emulation of a complete PC
      on a PC without the usual performance overhead of most emulators.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VMware Player, Server,
      and Workstation. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for
      details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>Local users may be able to gain escalated privileges, cause a Denial of
      Service, or gain sensitive information. 
    </p>
    
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,
      possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code, or a Denial
      of Service. Remote attackers also may be able to spoof DNS traffic, read
      arbitrary files, or inject arbitrary web script to the VMware Server
      Console. 
    </p>
    
    <p>Furthermore, guest OS users may be able to execute arbitrary code on the
      host OS, gain escalated privileges on the guest OS, or cause a Denial of
      Service (crash the host OS).
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>Gentoo discontinued support for VMware Player. We recommend that users
      unmerge VMware Player:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --unmerge "app-emulation/vmware-player"
    </code>
    
    <p>NOTE: Users could upgrade to
      “&gt;=app-emulation/vmware-player-3.1.5”, however these packages are
      not currently stable.
    </p>
    
    <p>Gentoo discontinued support for VMware Workstation. We recommend that
      users unmerge VMware Workstation:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --unmerge "app-emulation/vmware-workstation"
    </code>
    
    <p>NOTE: Users could upgrade to
      “&gt;=app-emulation/vmware-workstation-7.1.5”, however these packages
      are not currently stable.
    </p>
    
    <p>Gentoo discontinued support for VMware Server. We recommend that users
      unmerge VMware Server:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --unmerge "app-emulation/vmware-server"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5269">CVE-2007-5269</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5503 ">
      CVE-2007-5503 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5671 ">
      CVE-2007-5671 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-0967 ">
      CVE-2008-0967 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1340 ">
      CVE-2008-1340 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1361 ">
      CVE-2008-1361 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1362 ">
      CVE-2008-1362 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1363 ">
      CVE-2008-1363 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1364 ">
      CVE-2008-1364 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1392 ">
      CVE-2008-1392 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1447 ">
      CVE-2008-1447 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1806 ">
      CVE-2008-1806 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1807 ">
      CVE-2008-1807 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1808 ">
      CVE-2008-1808 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2098 ">
      CVE-2008-2098 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2100 ">
      CVE-2008-2100 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2101 ">
      CVE-2008-2101 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4915 ">
      CVE-2008-4915 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4916 ">
      CVE-2008-4916 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4917 ">
      CVE-2008-4917 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0040 ">
      CVE-2009-0040 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0909 ">
      CVE-2009-0909 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0910 ">
      CVE-2009-0910 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1244">CVE-2009-1244</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-2267 ">
      CVE-2009-2267 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3707 ">
      CVE-2009-3707 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3732 ">
      CVE-2009-3732 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3733 ">
      CVE-2009-3733 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-4811 ">
      CVE-2009-4811 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1137 ">
      CVE-2010-1137 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1138 ">
      CVE-2010-1138 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1139 ">
      CVE-2010-1139 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1140 ">
      CVE-2010-1140 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1141 ">
      CVE-2010-1141 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1142 ">
      CVE-2010-1142 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1143 ">
      CVE-2010-1143 
    </uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3868">CVE-2011-3868</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:01 +0000">system</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:12:45 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>