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VMware Player: Multiple vulnerabilities in mount.vmhgfs (VMSA-2011-0009) (CVE-2011-2145)

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VMware Player: Multiple vulnerabilities in mount.vmhgfs (VMSA-2011-0009) (CVE-2011-2145)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/06/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2013
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

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, when a Solaris or FreeBSD guest OS is used, allows guest OS users to modify arbitrary guest OS files via unspecified vectors, related to a "procedural error."

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-3_1_4

References

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