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Vigil@nce: VMware, privilege elevation under 64 bits

October 2008 by Vigil@nce

SYNTHESIS

An attacker can elevate his privileges inside a virtual guest
running a 64 bits BSD or Windows system.

Gravity: 2/4

Consequences: administrator access/rights

Provenance: user account

Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack

Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)

Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)

Creation date: 06/10/2008

IMPACTED PRODUCTS

 VMware ACE
 VMware ESX Server
 VMware ESX Server 3i
 VMware Player
 VMware Server
 VMware Workstation

DESCRIPTION

The VIGILANCE-VUL-8087 (https://vigilance.aql.fr/tree/1/8087)
vulnerability describe an error in the handling of the SwapGS
assembler instruction on FreeBSD/amd64, which can be used by an
attacker to obtain kernel privileges.

The VMware emulator is impacted by the same vulnerability, which
can be exploited in a BSD or Windows (not Linux) system, on a 64
bits platform.

An attacker with a user access inside a 64 bits BSD/Windows guest
system can therefore obtain kernel privileges of the guest system.
He does not obtain kernel privileges of the host system.

CHARACTERISTICS

Identifiers: BID-31569, CVE-2008-4279, VIGILANCE-VUL-8148,
VMSA-2008-0014, VMSA-2008-0014.1, VMSA-2008-0014.2, VMSA-2008-0016

http://vigilance.aql.fr/vulnerability/8148


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