VMware Player 2.0.1

虛擬機器是以軟體定義的電腦，就像是在你的個人電腦上再跑一台個人電腦。

這款免費的桌面虛擬化軟體應用程式，讓你可以輕鬆操作任何由 VMware Workstation、VMware Fusion、VMware Server 或 VMware ESX 建立的虛擬機器。

主要功能包括：

• 在單一 PC 上同時執行多個作業系統。
• 體驗預先設定好的產品所帶來的便利，無需處理任何安裝或設定問題。
• 在主機電腦與虛擬機器之間共享資料。
• 支援執行 32 位元與 64 位元的虛擬機器。
• 善用雙向虛擬 SMP（對稱多處理）。
• 可使用第三方虛擬機器與映像檔。
• 在主機電腦與虛擬機器之間共享資料。
• 廣泛支援主機與客座作業系統。
• 支援 USB 2.0 裝置。
• 啟動時即可取得應用裝置資訊。
• 透過直觀的首頁介面輕鬆存取虛擬機器。

VMware Player 也支援 Microsoft Virtual Server 虛擬機器或 Microsoft Virtual PC 虛擬機器。

# This release fixes several security vulnerabilities in the VMware DHCP server that could enable a malicious web page to gain system-level privileges.
Thanks to Neel Mehta and Ryan Smith of the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force for discovering and researching these vulnerabilities.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the following names to these issues: CVE-2007-0061, CVE-2007-0062, CVE-2007-0063.
# This release fixes a security vulnerability that could allow a guest operating system user with administrative privileges to cause memory corruption in a host process, and thus potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the following name to this issue: CVE-2007-4496.
Thanks to Rafal Wojtczvk of McAfee for identifying and reporting this issue.
# This release fixes a security vulnerability that could allow a guest operating system user without administrator privileges to cause a host process to become unresponsive or exit unexpectedly, making the guest operating system unusable. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the following name to this issue: CVE-2007-4497.
Thanks to Rafal Wojtczvk of McAfee for identifying and reporting this issue.
# This release fixes a security vulnerability that could allow a malicious remote user to exploit the library file IntraProcessLogging.dll to overwrite files in a system.
Thanks to the Goodfellas Security Research Team for discovering and researching these vulnerabilities.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the following name to this issue: CVE-2007-4059.
# This release fixes a security vulnerability that could allow a malicious remote user to exploit the library file vielib.dll to overwrite files in a system.
Thanks to the Goodfellas Security Research Team for discovering and researching these vulnerabilities.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the following names to this issue: CVE-2007-4155.
# This release fixes a problem that prevented VMware Player from launching. This problem was accompanied by the error message VMware Player unrecoverable error: (player) Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred. This problem could result in a security vulnerability from images stored in virtual machines downloaded by the user.
# This release fixes a security vulnerability in which VMware Player was starting registered Windows services such as the Authorization service with "bare" (unquoted) paths, such as c:program filesvmware.... Applications and services in Windows must be started with a quoted path. This vulnerability could allow a malicious user to escalate user privileges.
Thanks to Foundstone for discovering this vulnerability.