VMware Player: A VMCI privilege escalation on Windows-based hosts or Windows-based guests (VMSA-2009-0005) (CVE-2009-1147)
7
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
04/06/2009
07/25/2018
11/30/2013
02/13/2014
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in vmci.sys in the Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier, VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier, VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier, and VMware Server 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745 allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors.
Solution(s)
- vmware-player-upgrade-2_5_2
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