VMWare VMnc Codec Frame Decompression Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
TPTI-10-16: December 3rd, 2010CVE ID
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Affected Products
Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of multiple VMWare products. User interaction is required in that a user must visit a malicious web page or open a malicious video file.Upon installation VMWare Workstation, Server, Player, and ACE register vmnc.dll as a video codec driver to handle compression and decompression of the fourCC type 'VMnc'. This format is used primarily by Workstation to capture remote framebuffer recordings of sessions within a virtual machine. The resulting video is stored within an AVI container file. While playing back such files the function responsible for handling ICM_DECOMPRESS driver messages implicitly trusts a size value while decompressing a frame. An attacker can utilize this to miscalculate a destination pointer. This leads to the corruption of a heap buffer on a later call to memcpy with user-controlled source data. This can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code on the host system under the context of the current user.
Vendor Response
VMWare, Inc. has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2010-06-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-12-03 - Coordinated public release of advisory
