CVE-2007-1744 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 when a folder is shared allows users on the guest system to write to arbitrary files on the host system via the \Backdoor I/O Port\ interface.

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=521 http://secunia.com/advisories/25079 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467936/30/6690/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469011/30/6510/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23721 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017980 http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html554 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1592