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Gentoo: 200502-18 Normal: VMware Workstation Untrusted Library Search Path

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A notification has been issued regarding the risk of unauthorized command execution in VMware Workstation, resulting from the use of non-secure library directories.
VMware may load shared libraries from an untrusted, world-writable directory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: VMware Workstation: Untrusted library search path Date: February 14, 2005 Bugs: #81344 ID: 200502-18

Synopsis ======= VMware may load shared libraries from an untrusted, world-writable directory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= VMware Workstation is a powerful virtual machine for developers and system administrators.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 vmware-workstation < 4.5.2.8848-r5 >= 4.5.2.8848-r5
========== Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that VMware Workstation searches for gdk...

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