Several critical security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the newest releases of VMware's hosted product line

a. Host to guest shared folder HGFS traversal vulnerabilityOn Windows hosts, if you have configured a VMware host to guest shared folder HGFS, it is possible for a program running in the guest to gain access to the host's file system and create or modify executable files in sensitive locations...

VMSA-2008-0005:Several CRITICAL security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the newest releases of VMware's hosted product line

VMSA-2008-0005.1 Several critical security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the newest releases of VMware's hosted product line VMware Security Advisory VMware Security AdvisoryAdvisory ID: VMSA-2008-0005.1 VMware Security AdvisorySynopsis: Several critical security vulnerabilities have bee...

CVE-2008-0923

CVE-2008-0923 is a directory traversal vulnerability in VMware’s Shared Folders feature (HGFS) that affects desktop products including VMware Workstation up to 6.0.2, Workstation 5.5.4, VMware Player 2.0.2 and 1.0.4, and VMware ACE 2.0.2 and 1.0.2 . The root cause is a mismatch between input vali...