Bug 236693

Summary:

VMware Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (<vmware-server-1.0.7.108231)

Product:

Gentoo Security

Reporter:

Vladimir Rusinov <vladimir>

Component:

Vulnerabilities

Assignee:

Gentoo Security <security>

Status:

RESOLVED DUPLICATE

Severity:

normal

Priority:

High

Version:

unspecified

Hardware:

All

OS:

Linux

URL:

http://secunia.com/advisories/31708/

Whiteboard:

Package list:

Runtime testing required:

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Description	Flags
ebuild for new version	none

Description Vladimir Rusinov 2008-09-04 13:26:20 UTC

VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware Server, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system.

1) Various vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors within certain ActiveX controls. These can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website.

2) An unspecified error when processing malformed requests exists within the ISAPI Extension. This can be exploited to cause a DoS by sending specially crafted requests to a vulnerable system.

3) An unspecified error related to "OpenProcess" can be exploited by malicious, local users on a host system to gain escalated privileges on the host system.

4) Some vulnerabilities in freetype can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA30600

Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, scan using the Network Software Inspector.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.7 build 108231 or later.
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) The vendor credits Julien Bachmann, Shennan Wang, Shinnai, and Michal Bucko
2) The vendor credits Juniper Networks J-Security Security Research Team
3) The vendor credits Sun Bing, McAffee

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Vladimir Rusinov 2008-09-04 13:27:54 UTC

Created attachment 164560 [details]
ebuild for new version

Not 100% tested yet.

Comment 2 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-04 13:58:06 UTC

This is a duplicate of bug 236167. Both talk about VMSA-2008-0014

Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-04 18:37:00 UTC

Vladimir: Were there any changes to the ebuild, or did you use the in-tree version? If there were changes, please point them out on bug 236167.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 236167 ***

Comment 4 Vladimir Rusinov 2008-09-05 13:20:11 UTC

Sorry, for making a duplicate. :(

Robert, no I've used in-tree version, no modifications.