Storage vendors are hoping to cash in on the recent public outing made by VMWare on the stock market.
Earlier this month the virtualisation giant, owned by EMC, went for an initial public offering (IPO). On the first day of trading it gave the firm a market cap of about $19bn (£9.6bn).Utility storage vendor 3Par has filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed IPO. The vendor, which recently united with Network Appliance to challenge EMC, is looking to raise about $100m. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not been determined.
vulnerable software: VMware Workstation 6.0 for Windows, possible some other VMware products as well type of vulnerability: DoS, potential privilege escalation I found a vulnerability in VMware Workstation 6.0 which allows an unprivileged user in the host OS to crash the system and potentially run arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The issue is in the vmstor-60 driver, which is supposed to mount VMware images within the host OS. When sending the IOCTL code FsSetVoleInformation with subcode FsSetFileInformation with a large buffer and underreporting its size to at max 1024 bytes, it will underrun and potentially execute arbitrary code. Security focus
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