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has caused the Debian Bug report #486110,
regarding vmware-package: CVE-2008-0967 Untrusted search path vulnerability in
vmware-authd in VMware ...
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Package: vmware-package
Version: 0.22
Severity: important
Tags: security
Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for vmware-package.
CVE-2008-0967[0]:
| Untrusted search path vulnerability in vmware-authd in VMware
| Workstation 5.x before 5.5.7 build 91707 and 6.x before 6.0.4 build
| 93057, VMware Player 1.x before 1.0.7 build 91707 and 2.x before 2.0.4
| build 93057, and VMware Server before 1.0.6 build 91891 on Linux, and
| VMware ESXi 3.5 and VMware ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5, allows local users
| to gain privileges via an unspecified option in a configuration file.
If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.
For further information see:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0967
http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-0967
As mentioned in bug #484491, I think you just need to update the hashes
for the tarballs to fix this bug :)
Kind regards,
Thomas.
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Version: 0.22+rm
vmware-package has been removed from Debian because it was
unmaintained and contained non-distributable files.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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