CVE-2009-3707

high

Description

VMware Authentication Daemon 1.0 in vmware-authd.exe in the VMware Authorization Service in VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600 and 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459, VMware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, VMware ACE 2.6 before 2.6.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, and VMware Server 2.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a \x25\xFF sequence in the USER and PASS commands, related to a "format string DoS" issue. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

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

http://www.shinnai.net/index.php?mod=02_Forum&group=02_Bugs_and_Exploits&argument=01_Remote&topic=1254924405.ff.php

http://www.shinnai.net/exploits/abFwcLOuFqmD20yqhYpQ.txt

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36630

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022997

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/39215

http://secunia.com/advisories/39206

http://secunia.com/advisories/36988

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

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: 2009-10-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High