CVE-2008-3761
VMware Workstation 6.5.1 - Denial of Service via IOCTL Request
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-3761. PoCs published by g_.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in VMWare Workstation's hcmon.sys driver by sending a malformed IOCTL request (0x8101232B) to the \\.\hcmon device, causing a bugcheck due to unsanitized pointer dereferencing.
Description
hcmon.sys in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier, VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier, VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier, and VMware Server 1.0.x before 1.0.9 build 156507 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745 uses the METHOD_NEITHER communication method for IOCTLs, which allows local users to cause a denial of service via a crafted IOCTL request.
Exploits (1)
This exploit demonstrates a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in VMWare Workstation's hcmon.sys driver by sending a malformed IOCTL request (0x8101232B) to the \\.\hcmon device, causing a bugcheck due to unsanitized pointer dereferencing.