CVE-2007-4591

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

vstor-ws60.sys in VMWare Workstation 6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (host operating system crash) and possibly gain privileges by sending a small file buffer size value to the FsSetVolumeInformation IOCTL handler with an FsSetFileInformation subcode.

vstor-ws60.sys in VMWare Workstation 6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (host operating system crash) and possibly gain privileges by sending a small file buffer size value to the FsSetVolumeInformation IOCTL handler with an FsSetFileInformation subcode.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-08-29 15:17:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

VMWare VMWare 6.0

6.0

References

20070824 security vulnerability in VMware

26606

Vendor Advisory

http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/2007/08/security-vmware-workstation-6.html

25441

Exploit

1018609

ADV-2007-2992

vmware-vmstor-privilege-escalation(36277)

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