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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0015.1

Update: 2017-09-15 Corrected the underlying component  affected from SVGA driver to device.

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory:

“VMSA-2017-0015.1 – VMware ESXi, vCenter Server, Fusion and Workstation updates resolve multiple security vulnerabilities”

This documents the remediation of a critical severity issue (CVE-2017-4924) and two moderate severity issues (CVE-2017-4925 and CVE-2017-4926). These issues affect VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion and VMware vCenter Server.

Issue (a) CVE-2017-4924 is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in SVGA device which may allow a guest to execute code on the host. This issue affects ESXi 6.5, Fusion and Workstation. It has been addressed through an ESXi 6.5 patch, and in Fusion 8.5.8 and Workstation 12.5.7. ESXi 6.0 and 5.x are not affected.

Issue (b) CVE-2017-4925 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that occurs when handling guest RPC requests. This may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs. ESXi, Fusion and Workstation are affected. Fusion 8.5.4 and Workstation 12.5.3 fix this issue. Please refer to VMSA-2017-0015 for ESXi 6.5, 6.0 and 5.5 patches.

Issue (c) CVE-2017-4926 is a stored XSS in H5 Client and affects only VMware vCenter Server 6.5. An attacker with VC user privileges can inject malicious java-scripts which will get executed when other VC users access the page. vCenter Server 6.5 U1 fixes this issue.

We would like to thank Nico Golde and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Comsecuris UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) working with ZDI, Zhang Haitao, and Thomas Ornetzeder for reporting these issues to us.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0013

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory:

“VMSA-2017-0013 – VMware vCenter Server and Tools updates resolve multiple security vulnerabilities”

This documents an insecure library loading issue (CVE-2017-4921) and two information disclosure issues (CVE-2017-4922 and CVE-2017-4923) affecting VMware vCenter 6.5 release line. These issues are of moderate severity.

This also documents a moderate severity local privilege escalation issue (CVE-2015-5191) affecting VMware Tools.

CVE-2017-4921 is an insecure library loading issue that occurs due to the use of ‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH’ variable in an unsafe manner. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to load a shared library that may lead to privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-4922 is an information disclosure issue that occurs due to the service startup script using world writable directories as temporary storage for critical information. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to access certain critical information when the service gets restarted.

CVE-2017-4923 is also an information disclosure vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to obtain plaintext credentials when using the vCenter Server Appliance file-based backup feature.

CVE-2015-5191 is a local privilege escalation issue that exists because VMware Tools contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg.

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U1 and VMware Tools 10.0.9 and above fix these issues.

We would like to thank Thorsten Tüllmann, researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Joe Womack of Expedia, Florian Weimer and Kurt Seifried of Red Hat Product Security for reporting these issues to us.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0011

Today, VMware has released the following new security advisory:

“VMSA-2017-0011 – Horizon View Client update addresses a command injection vulnerability”

This documents an important severity command injection vulnerability (CVE-2017-4918) in the service startup script that affects VMware Horizon View Client for Mac (versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.x ).

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root on the Mac OS X system where the client is installed.

VMware Horizon View Client for Mac 4.5.0 fixes this issue.

We would like to thank Florian Bogner from Kapsch BusinessCom AG for reporting this issue to us.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0010 and Updated Security Advisory VMSA-2016-0024.1

On 6th of June 2017, VMware released the following new and updated security advisories:

VMSA-2017-0010 – vSphere Data Protection (VDP) updates address multiple security issues.

This new security advisory documents two issues.

VDP contains a deserialization issue (CVE-2017-4914). Exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to execute commands on the appliance. VMware would like to thank Tim Roberts, Arthur Chilipweli, and Kelly Correll from NTT Security for reporting this issue to us.

VDP locally stores vCenter Server credentials using reversible encryption (CVE-2017-4917). This issue may allow plaintext credentials to be obtained. VMware would like to thank Marc Ströbel aka phroxvs from HvS-Consulting for reporting this issue to VMware.

These issues have been addressed in VDP 6.1.4 and 6.0.5.

VMware has released the following updated security advisory:

VMSA-2016-0024.1 – vSphere Data Protection (VDP) updates address SSH key-based authentication issue

This issue has been addressed in VDP 6.1.4 and 6.0.5.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0009

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory:

“VMSA-2017-0009 – VMware Workstation update addresses multiple security issues”

This documents an important severity insecure library loading issue via ALSA sound driver configuration files (CVE-2017-4915) and a moderate severity NULL pointer dereference issue (CVE-2017-4916) affecting Workstation Pro/Player.

All VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.x are affected.

Successful exploitation of the insecure library loading issue may allow unprivileged host users to escalate their privileges to root in a Linux host machine.

The NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the vstor2 driver and may allow host users with normal user privileges to trigger a denial-of-service in a Windows host machine.

Workstation Pro/Player 12.5.6 fixes all these issues.

VMware would like to thank Jann Horn of Google Project Zero and Borja Merino for reporting these issues to us.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0008.2

Update 04/21/2017: Updated security advisory to clarify the Unified Access Gateway and Horizon View affected versions.

Update 04/19/2017: We have corrected the Horizon View Client for Windows version.

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory:

VMSA-2017-0008.2 – VMware Unified Access Gateway, Horizon View and Workstation updates resolve multiple security vulnerabilities

This documents several critical memory corruption vulnerabilities affecting VMware Unified Access Gateway (formerly called Access Point) (8.2.x, 2.7.x and 2.5.x), Horizon View (7.x, 6.x),  and Horizon View Client for Windows (4.x) and Workstation (12.5.x).

Issue (a) is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2017-4907) which affects VMware Unified Access Gateway and Horizon View. This issue may be exploited remotely to execute code on the security gateway. VMware Unified Access Gateway 2.9 is not affected. This issue has been addressed in VMware Unified Access Gateway 2.8.1, Horizon View 7.1.0 and 6.2.4.

Issues (b), (c) and (d) are heap-based buffer-overflow, out-of-bounds read/write and integer-overflow vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-4908, CVE-2017-4909, CVE-2017-4910, CVE-2017-4911, CVE-2017-4912, CVE-2017-4913) in JPEG2000 and TrueType Font (TTF) parsers in the TPView.dll. These issues exist due the use of vulnerable Cortado ThinPrint component and impact VMware Horizon View Client for Windows and Workstation. Exploitation is possible only if virtual printing has been enabled. This feature is not enabled by default on Workstation but it is enabled by default on Horizon View. These issues have been addressed in VMware Workstation 12.5.3 and  Horizon View Client for Windows 4.4.0.

We would like to thank Claudio Moletta (redr2e), and Ke Liu of Tencent’s Xuanwu Lab,  Gogil and Giwan Go of STEALIEN working with ZDI for reporting these issues to us.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0007

On Tuesday, 4th of April 2017 a remote code-execution issue in the BlazeDS library (CVE-2017-5641) was disclosed in a US-CERT security advisory. We have reviewed the issue and determined that VMware vCenter Server 6.5 and 6.0 are affected due to the use of BlazeDS to process AMF3 messages. VMware vCenter Server 5.5 is not affected.

We have released the following new security advisory which documents the fixes for VMware vCenter Server 6.5 and 6.0 along with the workarounds:

VMSA-2017-0007– VMware vCenter Server update resolves a remote code execution vulnerability via BlazeDS

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code when deserializing an untrusted Java object. The issue is present in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) opt-in UI. The vulnerability will still be present even if a customer has opted out of CEIP. Resolution of this vulnerability requires applying the fixes or the workarounds. We have also investigated this issue against the other VMware products. VMware products which are not listed in the security advisory are not affected.

We would like to thank Markus Wulftange of Code White GmbH for reporting this issue to us.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0005

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory:

VMSA-2017-0005 – VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability

The advisory documents a critical severity out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability (CVE-2017-4901). Exploitation of the issue may allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs Workstation or Fusion. ESXi is not affected.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2017-0002

Greetings from the VMware Security Response Center !

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory:

“VMSA-2017-0002 – Horizon DaaS update addresses an insecure data validation issue”

The advisory documents a moderate severity insecure data validation issue (CVE-2017-4897) in VMware Horizon DaaS. All 6.1.x versions are affected.

This vulnerability can be exploited by tricking DaaS client users into connecting to a malicious server and sharing all their drives and devices. Horizon DaaS 7.0.0 carries a fix for this issue.

VMware would like to thank Ahmad Ashraff of Aura Information Security for reporting this issue to us.

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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2016-0017

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory:

“VMSA-2016-0017 – VMware product updates address multiple information disclosure issues”

This addresses multiple information disclosure issues (CVE-2016-5328) in VMware Tools (versions 9.x and 10.x) running on Mac OS X VMs and (CVE-2016-5329) in VMware Fusion (versions 8.x).

Successful exploitation of these issues may allow a privileged local user on a system where System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled, to obtain kernel memory addresses to bypass the kASLR protection mechanism. SIP is default enabled in the latest versions of Mac OS X.

VMware would like to thank Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent for reporting these issues to us.

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