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TITLE:
VMware ESX Server / ESXi I/O Handling ROM Overwrite Privilege
Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48669

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/48669/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=48669

RELEASE DATE:
2012-03-30

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/48669/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
 * Last Update
 * Popularity
 * Comments
 * Criticality Level
 * Impact
 * Where
 * Solution Status
 * Operating System / Software
 * CVE Reference(s)

http://secunia.com/advisories/48669/

ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA:
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 * Report Reliability
 * Secunia PoC
 * Secunia Analysis
 * Systems Affected
 * Approve Distribution
 * Remediation Status
 * Secunia CVSS Score
 * CVSS

https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=48669

ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
 * AUTOMATED SCANNING

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in VMware ESX Server and VMware
ESXi, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest
virtual machine to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling port-based
I/O and can be exploited to modify virtual DOS machine Read-Only
Memory.

The vulnerability is reported in ESX Server and ESXi versions 4.1,
4.0, and 3.5 running Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Server 2003 32-bit,
and Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Derek Soeder, Ridgeway Internet Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0006.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
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EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

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