CVE-2009-1564

high

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in vmnc.dll in the VMnc media codec in VMware Movie Decoder before 6.5.4 Build 246459 on Windows, and the movie decoder in VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459, VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, and VMware Server 2.x on Windows, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an AVI file with crafted video chunks that use HexTile encoding.

References

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023838

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39363

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-36/

http://secunia.com/advisories/39215

http://secunia.com/advisories/39206

http://secunia.com/advisories/36712

http://osvdb.org/63614

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=866

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-04-12

Updated: 2010-04-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High