CWE
264
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2013-1662

First published: Sat Aug 24 2013(Updated: )

vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsb_release binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
VMware Workstation=8.0
VMware Workstation=8.0.0.18997
VMware Workstation=8.0.1
VMware Workstation=8.0.1.27038
VMware Workstation=8.0.2
VMware Workstation=8.0.3
VMware Workstation=8.0.4
VMware Workstation=8.0.5
VMware Workstation=8.0.6
VMware Workstation=9.0
VMware Workstation=9.0.1
VMware Workstation=9.0.2
VMware Player=4.0
VMware Player=4.0.0.18997
VMware Player=4.0.1
VMware Player=4.0.2
VMware Player=4.0.3
VMware Player=4.0.4
VMware Player=4.0.5
VMware Player=4.0.6
VMware Player=5.0
VMware Player=5.0.1
VMware Player=5.0.2

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