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 ...

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

The version of VMware Fusion installed on the remote Mac OS X 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...

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) (Linux)

The version of VMware Player installed on the remote host is version 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...

VMware ESXi updates address important guest privilege escalation vulnerability (VMSA-2016-0001) - Remote Version Check

VMware ESXi updates address 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 ifdescription...

VMware ESXi updates address important guest privilege escalation vulnerability (VMSA-2016-0001)

VMware ESXi updates address 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 ifdescription...

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...