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TITLE:
VMware Server Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31708

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31708/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
VMware Server 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10733/

DESCRIPTION:
VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware Server, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
and potentially compromise a user's system.

1) Various vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors
within certain ActiveX controls. These can be exploited to e.g.
execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a malicious
website.

2) An unspecified error when processing malformed requests exists
within the ISAPI Extension. This can be exploited to cause a DoS by
sending specially crafted requests to a vulnerable system.

3) An unspecified error related to "OpenProcess" can be exploited by
malicious, local users on a host system to gain escalated privileges
on the host system.

4) Some vulnerabilities in freetype can potentially be exploited by
malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA30600

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.7 build 108231 or later.
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Julien Bachmann, Shennan Wang, Shinnai, and
Michal Bucko
2) The vendor credits Juniper Networks J-Security Security Research
Team
3) The vendor credits Sun Bing, McAffee

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-August/064118.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30600:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30600/

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