CVE-2009-1564

critical

Published 2010-04-12 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	movie_decoder	`6.5.3`
vmware	workstation	`6.5.0`
vmware	workstation	`6.5.1`
vmware	workstation	`6.5.2`
vmware	workstation	`6.5.3`
vmware	player	`2.5`
vmware	player	`2.5.1`
vmware	player	`2.5.2`
vmware	player	`2.5.3`
vmware	server	`2.0.0`
vmware	server	`2.0.1`
vmware	server	`2.0.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.