VMSA-2008-0018 : VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues

a. A privilege escalation on 32-bit and 64-bit guest operating systems VMware products emulate hardware functions and create the possibility to run guest operating systems. A flaw in the CPU hardware emulation might allow the virtual CPU to incorrectly handle the Trap flag. Exploitation of this...

CVE-2008-4915

CVE-2008-4915 documents a privilege-escalation flaw in CPU hardware emulation across VMware products (Workstation, Player, Server, ESX/ESXi, and related variants) when running 32/64-bit guest OS. The trap-flag handling flaw allows an authenticated guest OS user to gain privileges on the guest OS....

VMSA-2008-0018 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2008-0018 Synopsis: VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues Issue date: 2008-11-06 Updated on...

VMSA-2008-0018:VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues

VMSA-2008-0018 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2008-0018 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues VMware...