CVE-2009-3707 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-3707

VMware Authentication Daemon 1.0 in vmware-authd.exe in the VMware Authorization...

Vulnerability Description

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\xFF sequence in the USER and PASS commands, related to a "format string DoS" issue. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ace, player, server, workstation
Vulnerable Versions:
2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.6, 2.6.1, 2.5, 3.0, 3.0.1, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 7.0, 7.0.1

Timeline

Official Publish: October 16th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.