VMware Player Guest Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Aug 2016) - Linux

VMware Player is prone to an important guest privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

VMware Player Guest Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Aug 2016) - Windows

VMware Player is prone to an important guest privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

VMware Player 12.1.x < 12.1.1 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest DLL Hijacking Arbitrary Code Execution (VMSA-2016-0010)

The version of VMware Player installed on the remote host is 12.1.x prior to 12.1.1. It is, therefore, affected by an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper loading of Dynamic-link library DLL files from insecure paths, including the current...

VMware Workstation 12.1.x < 12.1.1 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest DLL Hijacking Arbitrary Code Execution (VMSA-2016-0010) (Linux)

The version of VMware Workstation installed on the remote host is 12.1.x prior to 12.1.1. It is, therefore, affected by an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper loading of Dynamic-link library DLL files from insecure paths, including the current...

VMware Fusion 8.1.x < 8.1.1 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest DLL Hijacking Arbitrary Code Execution (VMSA-2016-0010)

The version of VMware Fusion installed on the remote Mac OS X host is 8.1.x prior to 8.1.1. It is, therefore, affected by an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper loading of Dynamic-link library DLL files from insecure paths, including the curre...

VMware Player 12.1.x < 12.1.1 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest DLL Hijacking Arbitrary Code Execution (VMSA-2016-0010) (Linux)

The version of VMware Player installed on the remote host is 12.1.x prior to 12.1.1. It is, therefore, affected by an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper loading of Dynamic-link library DLL files from insecure paths, including the current...

Multiple VMware Products Untrustworthy Search Path Vulnerabilities

VMware ESXi is a server virtualization platform that can be installed directly on physical servers; VMware Workstation Pro, VMware Workstation Player, and VMware Fusion are virtual machine software. VMware Tools is one of the enhancement tools that come with VMWare virtual machines. An untrusted...

CVE-2016-5330

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the HGFS aka Shared Folders feature in VMware Tools 10.0.5 in VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0, VMware Workstation Pro 12.1.x before 12.1.1, VMware Workstation Player 12.1.x before 12.1.1, and VMware Fusion 8.1.x before 8.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2016-5330

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the HGFS aka Shared Folders feature in VMware Tools 10.0.5 in VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0, VMware Workstation Pro 12.1.x before 12.1.1, VMware Workstation Player 12.1.x before 12.1.1, and VMware Fusion 8.1.x before 8.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2016-5330

CVE-2016-5330 describes a local privilege-escalation in VMware HGFS (Shared Folders) where a Trojan horse DLL loaded from the current working directory or other insecure paths can be executed with the rights of the affected guest/user. The vulnerability affects multiple VMware products and versio...

KLA10854 Privileges escalation vulnerabilities in VMware products

Untrusted search path vulnerability was found in VMware products. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can gain privileges. This vulnerability can be exploited locally via DLL hijack. Technical details This vulnerability related to HGFS aka Shared Folders feature. Original advisories...

VMware ESXi updates address multiple important security issues (VMSA-2016-0010)

A DLL hijacking vulnerability is present in the VMware Tools SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

VMware product updates address multiple important security issues

a. DLL hijacking issue in Windows-based VMware Tools A DLL hijacking vulnerability is present in the VMware Tools "Shared Folders" HGFS feature running on Microsoft Windows. Exploitation of this issue may lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the victim. In order to exploit this...

VMSA-2016-0010:VMware product updates address multiple HIGH security issues

VMSA-2016-0010.1 VMware product updates address multiple important security issues VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2016-0010.1 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware product updates address multiple security issue...

ESXi 6.0 < Build 3380124 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2016-0001) (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 6.0 host is prior to build 3380124. It is, therefore, affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, resulting in an elevation ...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 3086167 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2016-0001) (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is prior to build 3086167. It is, therefore, affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, resulting in an elevation ...

ESXi 5.1 < Build 3070626 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2016-0001) (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.1 host is prior to build 3070626. It is, therefore, affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, resulting in an elevation ...

VMware Workstation 11.x < 11.1.2 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2016-0001) (Linux)

The version of VMware Workstation installed on the remote host is 11.x prior to 11.1.2. It is, therefore, affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to corrupt memor...

VMware Workstation 11.x < 11.1.2 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2016-0001)

The version of VMware Workstation installed on the remote host is 11.x prior to 11.1.2. It is, therefore, affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to corrupt memor...

VMware Player 7.x < 7.1.2 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2016-0001)

The version of VMware Player installed on the remote host is 7.x prior to 7.1.2. It is, therefore, affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory,...