Security News > 2015 > July > VMware fixes host privilege escalation bug in Workstation, Player, Horizon View (Help Net Security)
2015-07-10 11:42
VMware has issued software updates for VMware Workstation, Player, and Horizon View Client for Windows, which fix relatively serious a host privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2015-3650). Repor...
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-10 | CVE-2015-3650 | Improper Access Control vulnerability in VMWare Horizon View Client, Player and Workstation vmware-vmx.exe in VMware Workstation 7.x through 10.x before 10.0.7 and 11.x before 11.1.1, VMware Player 5.x and 6.x before 6.0.7 and 7.x before 7.1.1, and VMware Horizon Client 5.x local-mode before 5.4.2 on Windows does not provide a valid DACL pointer during the setup of the vprintproxy.exe process, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges by injecting a thread. | 7.2 |