VMware Security Advisories
VMSA-2018-0014
VMware Horizon Client update addresses a privilege escalation vulnerability
VMware Security Advisory
1. Summary
VMware Horizon Client update addresses a privilege escalation vulnerability
2. Relevant Products
VMware Horizon Client for Linux (Horizon Client)
3. Problem Description
VMware Horizon Client privilege escalation vulnerability
VMware Horizon Client contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to insecure usage of SUID binary. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root on a Linux machine where Horizon Client is installed.
VMware would like to thank Nassim Abbaoui, pentester at OVH, for reporting this issue to us.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6964 to this issue.
Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.
VMware Product
Product Version
Running on
Severity
Replace with/ Apply Patch
Mitigation/ Workaround
4. Solution
Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file.
VMware Horizon View Client for Linux 4.8.0
Downloads and Documentation:
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon_clients/4_0
6. Change log
2018-05-29 VMSA-2018-0014 Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of VMware Horizon Client 4.8.0 on 2018-05-29.
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