CVE-2009-4811 Information

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\x90 sequence in the USER and PASS commands a related issue to CVE-2009-3707. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html http://freetexthost.com/qr1tffkzpu http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html http://pocoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/10/vmware-server-20x-remote-dos-exploit.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36630 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html