[ GLSA 200711-23 ] VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200711-23)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: November 18, 2007
Updated: April 16, 2008
Bug(s): #193196
ID: 200711-23

Synopsis


VMware guest operating systems might be able to execute arbitrary code with
elevated privileges on the host operating system through multiple flaws.


Background


VMware Workstation is a virtual machine for developers and system
administrators. VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software
that can run guests produced by other VMware products.


Affected Packages

Package: app-emulation/vmware-workstation
Vulnerable: < 5.5.5.56455
Vulnerable: = 6.0.0.45731
Unaffected: >= 5.5.5.56455
Architectures: All supported architectures

Package: app-emulation/vmware-player
Vulnerable: < 1.0.5.56455
Vulnerable: = 2.0.0.45731
Unaffected: >= 1.0.5.56455
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description


Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in several VMware
products. Neel Mehta and Ryan Smith (IBM ISS X-Force) discovered that
the DHCP server contains an integer overflow vulnerability
(CVE-2007-0062), an integer underflow vulnerability (CVE-2007-0063) and
another error when handling malformed packets (CVE-2007-0061), leading
to stack-based buffer overflows or stack corruption. Rafal Wojtczvk
(McAfee) discovered two unspecified errors that allow authenticated
users with administrative or login privileges on a guest operating
system to corrupt memory or cause a Denial of Service (CVE-2007-4496,
CVE-2007-4497). Another unspecified vulnerability related to untrusted
virtual machine images was discovered (CVE-2007-5617).

VMware products also shipped code copies of software with several
vulnerabilities: Samba (GLSA-200705-15), BIND (GLSA-200702-06), MIT
Kerberos 5 (GLSA-200707-11), Vixie Cron (GLSA-200704-11), shadow
(GLSA-200606-02), OpenLDAP (CVE-2006-4600), PAM (CVE-2004-0813,
CVE-2007-1716), GCC (CVE-2006-3619) and GDB (CVE-2006-4146).


Impact


Remote attackers within a guest system could possibly exploit these
vulnerabilities to execute code on the host system with elevated
privileges or to cause a Denial of Service.


Workaround


There is no known workaround at this time.


Resolution


All VMware Workstation users should upgrade to the latest version: