VMware vm-support multiple vulnerabilities

["Dolev Farhi" <dolevf () yahoo com>]

Author: dolevf
Date: 18.6.2014
Version: vm-support latest version 0.88
Tested on: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Relevant CVEs: 2014-4199, 2014-4200


1. About the application
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VMware support is a tool designed to collect diagnostic information such 
as logs, configuration files and directories, from a virtualized guest 
system.
vm-support is part of the vmware-tools pack.


2. Vulnerabilities Descriptions:
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CVE-2014-4199: An attacker is able to over-write system files  due to 
insecure creation of files in /tmp by running vm-support tool, 
potentially denying service to other users of the system.
CVE-2014-4200:  An attacker is able to extract sensitive files from the 
vm-support archive due to it having 0644 permissions and stored in /tmp 
folder.



3. Release date
--------------------
26.8.2014


4. proof of concept
-----------------------

CVE-2014-4199:
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 runcmd "ifconfig -a" "/tmp/ifconfig.$$.txt"
 runcmd "mount" "/tmp/mount.$$.txt"
 runcmd "dmesg" "/tmp/dmesg.$$.txt"
 runcmd "ulimit -a" "/tmp/ulimit-a.$$.txt"



CVE-2014-4200:
=============
[root@server1 tmp]# ls -ld vm-2014-08-26.25023.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 631081 Aug 26 17:19 vm-2014-08-26.25023.tar.gz





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