CVE-2009-0177

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

vmwarebase.dll, as used in the vmware-authd service (aka vmware-authd.exe), in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 build 126130, 6.5.1 and earlier; VMware Player 2.5.1 build 126130, 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware Server 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; and VMware Fusion before 2.0.2 build 147997 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long (1) USER or (2) PASS command.

vmwarebase.dll, as used in the vmware-authd service (aka vmware-authd.exe), in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 build 126130, 6.5.1 and earlier; VMware Player 2.5.1 build 126130, 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware Server 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; and VMware Fusion before 2.0.2 build 147997 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long (1) USER or (2) PASS command.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2009-01-20 16:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-19 01:30:00

Affected Software

VMWare ACE

VMware Fusion

VMware Server 2.0.0

2.0.0

References

[security-announce] 20090403 VMSA-2009-0005 VMware Hosted products, VI Client and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues

Patch

51180

20090403 VMSA-2009-0005 VMware Hosted products, VI Client and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues

Patch

33372

Vendor Advisory

34601

Vendor Advisory

34373

Exploit

1021512

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0005.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

ADV-2009-0024

Vendor Advisory

ADV-2009-0944

Vendor Advisory

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6433

7647

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