KLA10624 Privelege escalation vulnerability in VMware products

Detect date:

07/09/2015

Severity:

High

Description:

An unspecified vulnerability was found in VMware products. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can gain privileges. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a thread manipulations.

Affected products:

VMware Workstation for Windows 11 versions earlier than 11.1.1
VMware Workstation for Windows 10 versions earlier than 10.0.7
VMware Player for Windows 7 versions earlier than 7.1.1
VMware Player for Windows 6 versions earlier than 6.0.7
VMware Horizon Client for Windows 5 versions earlier than 5.4.2

Solution:

Update to the latest version
VMware products download

Original advisories:

VMware advisory

Impacts:

PE

Related products:

VMware Workstation

CVE-IDS:

CVE-2015-36507.2High