Null pointer dereference

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that exists in the vstor2 driver. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow host users with normal user privileges to trigger a denial-of-service in a Windows host machine...

CVE-2017-4916

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that exists in the vstor2 driver. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow host users with normal user privileges to trigger a denial-of-service in a Windows host machine...

CVE-2017-4915

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains an insecure library loading vulnerability via ALSA sound driver configuration files. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to escalate their privileges to root in a Linux host machine...

Design/Logic Flaw

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains an insecure library loading vulnerability via ALSA sound driver configuration files. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to escalate their privileges to root in a Linux host machine...

CVE-2017-4915

Summary (validated data): CVE-2017-4915 is a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in VMware Workstation Pro/Player on Linux caused by insecure loading of libraries via the ALSA sound driver configuration files (.asoundrc). The issue allows unprivileged host users to elevate privileges to root...

CVE-2017-4915

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains an insecure library loading vulnerability via ALSA sound driver configuration files. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to escalate their privileges to root in a Linux host machine...

CVE-2017-4916

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that exists in the vstor2 driver. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow host users with normal user privileges to trigger a denial-of-service in a Windows host machine...

CVE-2017-4916

CVE-2017-4916 is a NULL pointer dereference in the vstor2 driver affecting VMware Workstation Pro/Player (12.x). Public sources document denial-of-service via local exploitation on Windows hosts with normal user privileges. Several references tie the issue to VMware Workstation 12.x before 12.5.5...

VMware Workstation for Linux 12.5.2 build-4638234 - ALSA Configuration Host Local Privilege Escalation

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1142 This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root privileges. The issue is that, for VMs with audio, the privileged VM host process loads libasound, whic...

VMware Workstation for Linux 12.5.2 build-4638234 - ALSA Configuration Host Local Privilege Escalation

VMware Workstation for Linux 12.5.2 build-4638234 - ALSA Configuration Host Local Privilege Escalation / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1142 This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root...

VMware Workstation ALSA Config File Local Privilege Escalation

This module exploits a vulnerability in VMware Workstation Pro and Player on Linux which allows users to escalate their privileges by using an ALSA configuration file to load and execute a shared object as root when launching a virtual machine with an attached sound card. This module has been...

VMWare Workstation On Linux Privilege Escalation

VMWare Workstation on Linux: unprivileged host user - host root privesc via ALSA config CVE-2017-4915 This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root privileges. The issue is that, for VMs with audio, the privileged VM host...

VMware Workstation for Linux 12.5.2 build-4638234 - ALSA Config Host Root Privilege Escalation Explo

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1142 This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root privileges. The issue is that, for VMs with audio...

VMware Patches Multiple Security Issues in Workstation

VMware fixed two bugs in its VMware Workstation late Thursday night, including an insecure library loading vulnerability and a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. The virtualization software company warned of the issues Thursday night in a security advisory VMSA-2017-0009. Jann Horn, a securi...

The CIS Critical Controls Explained - Control 7: Email and Web browser protection

This blog is a continuation of our blog post series around the CIS Critical Controls. The biggest threat surface in any organization is its workstations. This is the reason so many of the CIS Critical Security Controls relate to workstation and user-focused endpoint security. It is also the reaso...

VMSA-2017-0009:VMware Workstation update addresses multiple security issues

VMSA-2017-0009 VMware Workstation update addresses multiple security issues VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2017-0009 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Workstation update addresses multiple security issues...

Design/Logic Flaw

Dolibarr ERP/CRM 4.0.4 allows password changes without supplying the current password, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain access via an unattended workstation...

CVE-2017-8879

Dolibarr ERP/CRM 4.0.4 allows password changes without supplying the current password, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain access via an unattended workstation...

CVE-2017-8879

Dolibarr ERP/CRM 4.0.4 allows password changes without supplying the current password, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain access via an unattended workstation...

CVE-2017-8879

Dolibarr ERP/CRM 4.0.4 allows password changes without supplying the current password, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain access via an unattended workstation...