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>> VMWare Workstation For Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Title : VMWare Workstation For Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0162
CVE ID : CVE-2005-0444
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-02-15
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A new vulnerability was identified in VMWare Workstation, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. The problem is that VMware may load shared libraries from an untrusted, world-writable directory, which may be exploited by a local user to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running VMware.
Affected Products
VMWare Workstation 4.5.2 and earlier (for Linux)
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any official supplied patch for this issue.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0162
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-18.xml
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Tavis Ormandy
ChangeLog
2005-02-15 : Initial release
2005-02-16 : Updated CVE
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