CVE-2008-0923 (GCVE-0-2008-0923)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-02-26 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:01
VLAI?
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMWare ACE 1.0.2 and 2.0.2, Player 1.0.4 and 2.0.2, and Workstation 5.5.4 and 6.0.2 allows guest OS users to read and write arbitrary files on the host OS via a multibyte string that produces a wide character string containing .. (dot dot) sequences, which bypasses the protection mechanism, as demonstrated using a "%c0%2e%c0%2e" string.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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Assigner
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27944 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/29117 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2129 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenot… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/release… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasen… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenote… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019493 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/searc… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announ… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0679 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3700 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
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