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Old 25th February, 2008, 07:44 PM
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Critical VMware bug lets attackers zap 'real' Windows

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Monday, 25 February 2008

VMware posts its second security-related notice posted in two days

By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
February 25, 2008
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A critical vulnerability in VMware's virtualization software for Windows lets attackers escape the "guest" operating system and modify or add files to the underlying "host" operating system, the company has acknowledged. [Front Page...]
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Ummm........oops?

One of the attactions of virtualization is that you can do whatever you want to the guest and it won't adversely affect the filesystem of the host.
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