National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4497
Original release date:09/21/2007
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in EMC VMware Workstation before 5.5.5 Build 56455 and 6.x before 6.0.1 Build 55017, Player before 1.0.5 Build 56455 and Player 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, ACE before 1.0.3 Build 54075 and ACE 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, and Server before 1.0.4 Build 56528 allows users with login access to a guest operating system to cause a denial of service (guest outage and host process crash or hang) via unspecified vectors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
5.1
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Local network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 25731
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3229
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-543-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018718
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200711-23
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27706
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27694
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26890
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20070920 VMSA-2007-0006 Critical security updates for all supported versions of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, and VMware Player
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)