CVSS2
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
60.1%
The installed version of VMware Workstation 9.x is prior to 9.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to an issue with handling invalid ports that could allow a guest user to crash the VMX process.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(72041);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/09/21");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-1208");
script_bugtraq_id(64994);
script_xref(name:"VMSA", value:"2014-0001");
script_name(english:"VMware Workstation 9.x < 9.0.1 VMX Process DoS (VMSA-2014-0001) (Linux)");
script_summary(english:"Checks VMware Workstation version");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host has a virtualization application that is affected by a
denial of service vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The installed version of VMware Workstation 9.x is prior to 9.0.1. It
is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to an
issue with handling invalid ports that could allow a guest user to
crash the VMX process.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update to VMware Workstation 9.0.1 or later.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"unix");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2014-1208");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/01/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/11/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/01/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:vmware:workstation");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"General");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("vmware_workstation_linux_installed.nbin");
script_require_keys("Host/VMware Workstation/Version");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
version = get_kb_item_or_exit("Host/VMware Workstation/Version");
fixed = '9.0.1';
# 9.x < 9.0.1
if (
ver_compare(ver:version, fix:'9.0.0', strict:FALSE) >= 0 &&
ver_compare(ver:version, fix:fixed, strict:FALSE) == -1
)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0)
{
report +=
'\n Installed version : ' + version +
'\n Fixed version : ' + fixed +
'\n';
security_note(port:0, extra:report);
}
else security_note(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_INST_VER_NOT_VULN, "VMware Workstation", version);