CVE-2009-2267 Information

Description

VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.3 build 185404 VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.3 build 185404 VMware ACE 2.5.x before 2.5.3 build 185404 VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.10 build 203137 and 2.x before 2.0.2 build 203138 VMware Fusion 2.x before 2.0.6 build 196839 VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 and VMware ESX 2.5.5 3.0.3 3.5 and 4.0 when Virtual-8086 mode is used do not properly set the exception code upon a page fault (aka PF) exception which allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by specifying a crafted value for the cs register.

Reference

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000069.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37172 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1023082 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023083 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507523/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507539/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36841 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0015.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3062 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A8473