Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in vielib.dll in EMC VMware 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local programs via a full pathname in the first two arguments to the (1) CreateProcess or (2) CreateProcessEx method.
Public exploits
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Exploit-DB 1
- VMware Inc 6.0.0 - CreateProcess Remote Code Execution EDB-4245 · remote · Jul 30, 2007 · verified
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References
- 20070920 VMSA-2007-0006 Critical security updates for all supported versions of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, and VMware Player mailing-list
- ADV-2007-3229 vdb-entry
- http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html
- 4245 exploit
- http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html
- 26890 third-party-advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.html
- http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html
- vmware-createprocess-code-execution(35670) vdb-entry
- 1018511 vdb-entry
- 25131 vdb-entry