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CVE-2005-0444

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-02-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

VMware before 4.5.2.8848-r5 searches for gdk-pixbuf shared libraries using a path that includes the rrdharan world-writable temporary directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• VMware Workstation: through 4.5.2_build_8848

References

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-18.xml
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-18.xml

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