5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.47 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.5%
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\x90 sequence in the USER and PASS commands, a related issue to CVE-2009-3707. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html
freetexthost.com/qr1tffkzpu
lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html
pocoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/10/vmware-server-20x-remote-dos-exploit.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
www.securityfocus.com/bid/36630
www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html