CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-3707

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2009-10-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-10-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-134

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.

Affected configurations

• 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

References