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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1361

Published: Mar 20, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1361
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3 and 5.5.x before 5.5.6, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3 and 1.0.x before 1.0.6, VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 and 1.0.x before 1.0.5, and VMware Server 1.0.x before 1.0.5 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via an unspecified manipulation that causes the authd process to connect to an arbitrary named pipe, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1362.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
AceVmware1.0 (including)1.0 (including)
AceVmware1.0.1 (including)1.0.1 (including)
AceVmware1.0.2 (including)1.0.2 (including)
AceVmware1.0.3 (including)1.0.3 (including)
AceVmware1.0.4 (including)1.0.4 (including)
AceVmware2.0 (including)2.0 (including)
PlayerVmware1.0.2 (including)1.0.2 (including)
PlayerVmware1.0.3 (including)1.0.3 (including)
PlayerVmware1.0.4 (including)1.0.4 (including)
PlayerVmware1.0.5 (including)1.0.5 (including)
PlayerVmware2.0 (including)2.0 (including)
PlayerVmware2.0.1 (including)2.0.1 (including)
PlayerVmware2.0.2 (including)2.0.2 (including)
ServerVmware1.0.3 (including)1.0.3 (including)
Vmware_serverVmware1.0.0 (including)1.0.0 (including)
Vmware_serverVmware1.0.1 (including)1.0.1 (including)
Vmware_serverVmware1.0.2 (including)1.0.2 (including)
Vmware_serverVmware1.0.3 (including)1.0.3 (including)
Vmware_serverVmware1.0.4 (including)1.0.4 (including)
Vmware_workstationVmware5.5.5 (including)5.5.5 (including)
Vmware_workstationVmware6.0.1 (including)6.0.1 (including)
Vmware_workstationVmware6.0.2 (including)6.0.2 (including)
WorkstationVmware5.5 (including)5.5 (including)
WorkstationVmware5.5.3_build_34685 (including)5.5.3_build_34685 (including)
WorkstationVmware5.5.3_build_42958 (including)5.5.3_build_42958 (including)
WorkstationVmware5.5.4 (including)5.5.4 (including)
WorkstationVmware5.5.4_build_44386 (including)5.5.4_build_44386 (including)
WorkstationVmware6.0 (including)6.0 (including)
Vmware-playerUbuntudapper*
Vmware-playerUbuntuedgy*
Vmware-playerUbuntufeisty*
Vmware-serverUbuntufeisty*
Vmware-serverUbuntugutsy*

References

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