gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml

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<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>2007-11-18</announced>
  <revised count="03">2008-04-16</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 "&gt;=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 "&gt;=app-emulation/vmware-player-1.0.5.56455"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0813">CVE-2004-0813</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3619">CVE-2006-3619</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4146">CVE-2006-4146</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4600">CVE-2006-4600</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0061">CVE-2007-0061</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0062">CVE-2007-0062</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0063">CVE-2007-0063</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1716">CVE-2007-1716</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4496">CVE-2007-4496</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4497">CVE-2007-4497</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5617">CVE-2007-5617</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-02.xml">GLSA-200606-02</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-06.xml">GLSA-200702-06</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-11.xml">GLSA-200704-11</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-15.xml">GLSA-200705-15</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200707-11.xml">GLSA-200707-11</uri>
    <uri link="https://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2007/000001.html">VMSA-2007-0006</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-07T01:24:32Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-11-13T02:06:33Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-15T23:43:42Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>