CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-0967

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2008-06-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-06-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in vmware-authd in VMware Workstation 5.x before 5.5.7 build 91707 and 6.x before 6.0.4 build 93057, VMware Player 1.x before 1.0.7 build 91707 and 2.x before 2.0.4 build 93057, and VMware Server before 1.0.6 build 91891 on Linux, and VMware ESXi 3.5 and VMware ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5, allows local users to gain privileges via a library path option in a configuration file.

Affected configurations

• vmware esx server 2.5.5 • vmware esx server 3.1 • vmware esx server 3.2 • vmware esx server 3.3 • vmware esx server 3.5 • vmware esxi 3.5 • vmware player 1.0.0 • vmware player 1.0.1 • vmware player 1.0.2 • vmware player 1.0.3 • vmware player 1.0.4 • vmware player 1.0.5 • vmware player 1.0.6 • vmware player 2.0 • vmware player 2.0.1 • vmware player 2.0.2 • vmware player 2.0.3 • vmware server 1.0.3 • vmware vmware server 1.0.0 • vmware vmware server 1.0.1 • vmware vmware server 1.0.2 • vmware vmware server 1.0.4 • vmware vmware server 1.0.5 • vmware vmware workstation 5.5.0 • vmware vmware workstation 5.5.2 • vmware vmware workstation 5.5.5 • vmware vmware workstation 5.5.6 • vmware vmware workstation 6.0.1 • vmware vmware workstation 6.0.2 • vmware vmware workstation 6.0.3 • vmware workstation 5.5.1 • vmware workstation 5.5.3 • vmware workstation 5.5.4 • vmware workstation 6.0 • vmware esx 3.0.0 • vmware esx 3.0.1 • vmware esx 3.0.2

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