CVE-2009-4811
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\x90 sequence in the USER and PASS commands, a related issue to CVE-2009-3707. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Predictions
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | ace | 2.5.0 | |
| vmware | ace | 2.5.1 | |
| vmware | ace | 2.5.2 | |
| vmware | ace | 2.5.3 | |
| vmware | ace | 2.5.4 | |
| vmware | ace | 2.6 | |
| vmware | ace | 2.6.1 | |
| vmware | player | 2.5 | |
| vmware | player | 2.5.1 | |
| vmware | player | 2.5.2 | |
| vmware | player | 2.5.3 | |
| vmware | player | 2.5.4 | |
| vmware | player | 3.0 | |
| vmware | player | 3.0.1 | |
| vmware | server | 2.0.0 | |
| vmware | server | 2.0.1 | |
| vmware | server | 2.0.2 | |
| vmware | workstation | 6.5.0 | |
| vmware | workstation | 6.5.1 | |
| vmware | workstation | 6.5.2 | |
| vmware | workstation | 6.5.3 | |
| vmware | workstation | 6.5.4 | |
| vmware | workstation | 7.0 | |
| vmware | workstation | 7.0.1 | |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html
- http://freetexthost.com/qr1tffkzpu
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html
- http://pocoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/10/vmware-server-20x-remote-dos-exploit.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36630
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html
- http://freetexthost.com/qr1tffkzpu
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html
- http://pocoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/10/vmware-server-20x-remote-dos-exploit.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36630
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html
CWEs
CWE-134
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.