PT-2005-1505 · Vmware · Vmware+1

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2005-02-14 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-0444

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware versions prior to 4.5.2.8848-r5

Description The issue allows local users to execute arbitrary code by searching for gdk-pixbuf shared libraries using a path that includes a world-writable temporary directory.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.5.2.8848-r5, update to version 4.5.2.8848-r5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0444

Affected Products

Vmware

Vmware Workstation

References · 3

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-18.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0444 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0444 · Note