Many storage end - users are skeptical of competing vendor claims surrounding virtualization and tiered storage and rightly so. It is a significant change from tried-and-true practices and technologies, and IT executives and managers are naturally cautious about such a major type of deployment. However the fact remains that many end-users have been implementing virtualization and tiered storage environments over the past couple of years, and they are experiencing a significant positive impact on their business and IT operations. In this discussion, Scott Genereux will examine the apprehension - you might even say fear- that remains, and in the process of effectively moving beyond this new frontier.Watch the webcast now.
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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