CVE-2010-1142 Information

Description

VMware Tools in VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459; VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459; VMware ACE 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459; VMware Server 2.x before 2.0.2 build 203138; VMware Fusion 2.x before 2.0.6 build 246742; VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0; and VMware ESX 2.5.5 3.0.3 3.5 and 4.0 does not properly load VMware programs which might allow Windows guest OS users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse program at an unspecified location on the guest OS disk.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39198 http://secunia.com/advisories/39206 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml http://www.acrossecurity.com/aspr/ASPR-2010-04-12-2-PUB.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39394 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023832 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023833 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html