VMware Player: VMware Workstation and Player Weak permissions on process threads vulnerability (VMSA-2012-0015) (CVE-2012-5458)
8
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
11/14/2012
07/25/2018
11/30/2013
05/27/2016
Description
VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows use weak permissions for unspecified process threads, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted application.
Solution(s)
- vmware-player-upgrade-4_0_5
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