By Eduard Kovacs on January 08, 2016 The first security advisory published by VMware in 2016 describes an important guest privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Tools. VMware Tools includes utilities designed to enhance the performance of the virtual machine (VM) guest operating system and improve VM management. Dmitry Janushkevich from the Secunia Research Team discovered that the Shared Folders (HGFS) feature running on Windows is plagued by a memory corruption flaw (CVE-2015-6933) that can be exploited by an attacker to escalate their privileges in the guest operating system. VMware has pointed out that the vulnerability cannot be exploited to escalate privileges from the guest operating system to the host, and host memory cannot be manipulated from the guest. Full Article Here: http://www.securityweek.com/privilege-escalation-flaw-found-vmware-tools
