CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-5972

Published: Nov 18, 2013 | Modified: Nov 19, 2013

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5972
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3 and VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3 on Linux do not properly handle shared libraries, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Workstation	Vmware	9.0 (including)	9.0 (including)
Workstation	Vmware	9.0.1 (including)	9.0.1 (including)
Workstation	Vmware	9.0.2 (including)	9.0.2 (including)

References

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0013.html

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