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 reporting this issue to us.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2012-1518 to this issue.
Column 4 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.