Re: VMware Workstation 4.0: Possible privilege escalation on the host via symlink manipulation

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Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 14:10:01 PDT

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VMware have posted a knowledge base article on 2003-06-27 that describes 
the workaround to protect a system against potential priviledge escalation.

It is at:

http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1019


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>Subject: VMware Workstation 4.0: Possible privilege escalation on the host
>    via symlink manipulation
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>It is possible for a user to gain an esclation in privileges on a system 
>running VMware Workstation 4.0 for Linux systems by symlink manipulation 
>in a world-writable directory such as /tmp.
>
>Affected systems: VMware Workstation 4.0 for Linux systems
>
>Dates: This was reported to VMware on 2003-06-17 and VMware is posting 
this
>to Bugtraq on 2003-06-26.  
>
>Resolutions:
>1. VMware has identified a workaround and a Knowledge Base article will 
be 
>posted by noon Pacific Time on 2003-06-27 at the following url.
>
>http://www.vmware.com/kb
>
>2. VMware plans to release a patch that will resolve this problem 
>shortly.  VMware will announce details when available.
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