CVE-2006-6410

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in an ActiveX control in VMWare 5.5.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long VmdbDb parameter to the Initialize function.

Buffer overflow in an ActiveX control in VMWare 5.5.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long VmdbDb parameter to the Initialize function.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-12-10 02:28:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-17 21:48:00

Affected Software

VMWare VMWare Workstation 5.5.1

5.5.1

References

2008

http://www.open-security.org/advisories/17

Vendor Advisory

20061126 VMware 5.5.1 Local Buffer Overflow (HTML Exploit)

20061127 Re: VMware 5.5.1 Local Buffer Overflow (HTML Exploit)

19732

2264

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