VMSA-2014-0005 : VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74244

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Synopsis

The remote VMware ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

a. Guest privilege escalation in VMware Tools

A kernel NULL dereference vulnerability was found in VMware Tools running on Microsoft Windows 8.1. Successful exploitation of this issue could lead to an escalation of privilege in the guest operating system.

VMware would like to thank Tavis Ormandy from the Google Security Team for reporting this issue to us.
The vulnerability does not allow for privilege escalation from the Guest Operating System to the host. This means that host memory can not be manipulated from the Guest Operating System.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2014-3793 to this issue.

Solution

Apply the missing patch.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74244

File Name: vmware_VMSA-2014-0005.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Family: VMware ESX Local Security Checks

Published: 5/30/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:vmware:esxi:5.0, cpe:/o:vmware:esxi:5.1, cpe:/o:vmware:esxi:5.5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/VMware/release, Host/VMware/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3793

BID: 67737

VMSA: 2014-0005

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