CVE-2007-5671 Information

Description

HGFS.sys in the VMware Tools package in VMware Workstation 5.x before 5.5.6 build 80404 VMware Player before 1.0.6 build 80404 VMware ACE before 1.0.5 build 79846 VMware Server before 1.0.5 build 80187 and VMware ESX 2.5.4 through 3.0.2 does not properly validate arguments in user-mode METHOD_NEITHER IOCTLs to the \\.\hgfs device which allows guest OS users to modify arbitrary memory locations in guest kernel memory and gain privileges.

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=712 http://secunia.com/advisories/30556 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3922 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020197 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493148/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493172/100/0/threaded http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5358 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5688