CVE-2000-0090 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0090?

CVE-2000-0090 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 13 Oct 2000. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

VMWare 1.1.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via a symlink attack.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0090?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0090?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0090 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2000-0090 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0090 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mm2j-wr48-jg44.