Description: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware Workstation, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or bypass certain security restrictions. 1) An error exists within the ACPI implementation of the virtual machine process (VMX) when collecting information about running states of virtual machines, which can be exploited to cause the process to read from invalid memory locations. 2) An unspecified error exists within the VMX when storing certain malformed configuration data, which can be exploited to cause a DoS of guest operating systems. 3) An unspecified error within the handling of general protection faults (GPFs) in Windows guest operating systems can be exploited to crash Windows virtual machines. 4) Unspecified errors when debugging applications in a 64-bit Windows guest operating system on a 64-bit host system can be exploited to e.g. cause corrupted stack pointers or kernel bugchecks. 5) A design error within the "Shared Folders" feature can be exploited in a guest system to read and write arbitrary files on a host system. Successful exploitation requires that at least one folder is shared. In order to write to host files, the "read only" option of the shared folder has to be disabled. Solution: Update to VMware Workstation 5.5.4, Build 44386.
vmware please advise and bump as necessary.
Sorry, I'm semi-away. I'll get to this one tomorrow.
Chris seems Vmware 6 is out. take a look, you may bump to 6.0 directly :)
I don't want 6 going stable directly. I apologize. I have the new 5.5.4 in my overlay. I am adding it to the VMware overlay and if I don't get any bad regressions will throw it into the tree this evening.
OK. I added 5.5.4 to the tree.
This one is ready for GLSA vote. I tend to vote NO.
(In reply to comment #6) > This one is ready for GLSA vote. I tend to vote NO. I wonder why the arches are cced then. Removing amd64 and x86
voting no
I also vote no - nothing really to see here.
Closing with NO GLSA.
