69590 : VMware Tools Update Guest System Unspecified Arbitrary Command Injection
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
9	1290	over 2 years ago	about 2 years ago	13 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date
2010-12-03

Time to Patch
218 days

Description

VMware Tools update contains an input validation flaw. This may allow a local attacker to execute commands on the guest operating system with root privileges.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Patch / RCS
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, VMWare has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

VMware, Inc.

VMWare Tools

Unspecified

References

Security Tracker: 1024819 1024820
CVE ID: 2010-4297 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 42480 42482
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2010-3116
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000112.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0018.html
Mail List Post: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/138
Other Advisory URL: http://www.bonsai-sec.com/en/research/vulnerabilities/vmware-tools-os-command-injection-0110.php

Tools & Filters

	51057 51078

Credit

Nahuel Grisolia - Bonsai Information Security

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-12-07 | Disagree?

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