National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2217

Overview

Certain ActiveX controls in (1) tsgetxu71ex552.dll and (2) tsgetx71ex552.dll in Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory 5.5.2.237, as used in VI Client (aka VMware Infrastructure Client) 2.0.2 before Build 230598 and 2.5 before Build 204931 in VMware Infrastructure 3, do not properly handle attempted initialization within Internet Explorer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted HTML document.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: vmware-viclient-code-exec(67816)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67816

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html

External Source: BID

Name: 48099

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48099

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025602

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1025602

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44844

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44844

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44826

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44826

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20110603 Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=911