CVE-2009-3707
VMware Workstation/Player/ACE/Server DoS via Format String in Auth Daemon
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2009-3707. PoCs published by shinnai.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a format string vulnerability in VMware Authorization Service (vmware-authd.exe) <= 2.5.3, causing a denial-of-service by sending malformed USER and PASS commands with format string specifiers. The PoC crashes the service by leveraging improper input validation.
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a format string vulnerability in VMware Authorization Service (vmware-authd.exe) <= 2.5.3, causing a denial-of-service by sending malformed USER and PASS commands with format string specifiers. The PoC crashes the service by leveraging improper input validation.