Vulnerability in Vmware Gsx Server

CVE-2003-0631

VMware GSX Server 2.5.1 build 4968 and earlier, and Workstation 4.0 and earlier, allows local users to gain root privileges via certain enivronment variables that are used when launching a virtual machine session.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Vmware Gsx_server — versions 2.5.1
Vmware Workstation — versions 4.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)