VMware Products Local Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2012-0007)

The VMware Workstation installation detected on the remote host is 8.x earlier than 8.0.2 and thus is potentially affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability because the access control list of the VMware Tools folder is incorrectly set. By exploiting this issue, a local attacker could...

VMSA-2012-0007 : VMware hosted products and ESXi/ESX patches address privilege escalation

a. VMware Tools Incorrect Folder Permissions Privilege Escalation The access control list of the VMware Tools folder is incorrectly set. Exploitation of this issue may lead to local privilege escalation on Windows-based Guest Operating Systems. VMware would like to thank Tavis Ormandy for reporti...

VMware hosted products and ESXi/ESX patches address privilege escalation

a. VMware Tools Incorrect Folder Permissions Privilege EscalationThe access control list of the VMware Tools folder is incorrectly set. Exploitation of this issue may lead to local privilege escalation on Windows-based Guest Operating Systems.VMware would like to thank Tavis Ormandy for reporting...

VMSA-2012-0007:VMware hosted products and ESXi/ESX patches address privilege escalation

VMSA-2012-0007.1 VMware hosted products and ESXi/ESX patches address privilege escalation VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2012-0007.1 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware hosted products and ESXi/ESX patches address privilege escalation VMware Security...