CVE-2011-1787 Information

Description

Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4 VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4 VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3 VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1 and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/44840 http://secunia.com/advisories/44904 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48098 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025601 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677