CVE-2011-1787: Race Condition

First published: Mon Jun 06 2011(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
VMware Workstation	=7.1.1
VMware Workstation	=7.1.2
VMware Workstation	=7.1.3
VMware Player	=3.1
VMware Player	=3.1.1
VMware Player	=3.1.2
VMware Player	=3.1.3
VMware Fusion	=3.1
VMware Fusion	=3.1.1
VMware Fusion	=3.1.2
VMware ESX	=3.0.3
VMware ESX	=3.5
VMware ESX	=4.0
VMware ESX	=4.1
VMware ESXi	=3.5
VMware ESXi	=4.0
VMware ESXi	=4.1

Remedy

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html

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