metadata/glsa/glsa-200502-18.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200502-18">
  <title>VMware Workstation: Untrusted library search path</title>
  <synopsis>
    VMware may load shared libraries from an untrusted, world-writable
    directory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">VMware</product>
  <announced>February 14, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 25, 2006: 03</revised>
  <bug>81344</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/vmware-workstation" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.5.2.8848-r5</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">3.2.1.2242-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.5.2.8848-r5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine for developers and
    system administrators.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered
    that VMware Workstation searches for gdk-pixbuf loadable modules in an
    untrusted, world-writable directory.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could create a malicious shared object that would be
    loaded by VMware, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
    privileges of the user running VMware.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    The system administrator may create the file /tmp/rrdharan to prevent
    malicious users from creating a directory at that location:
    </p>
    <code>
    # touch /tmp/rrdharan</code>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All VMware Workstation users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-emulation/vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r4&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0444">CVE-2005-0444</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:53:09 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:53:31 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:36:17 +0000">
    taviso
  </metadata>
</glsa>