CVE-2005-4773 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-4773?

CVE-2005-4773 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Esx, published on 13 Apr 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The configuration of VMware ESX Server 2.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.x, and 2.5.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (shutdown) via the (1) halt, (2) poweroff, and (3) reboot scripts executed at the service console.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4773?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Esx.

How do I fix CVE-2005-4773?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4773 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-2005-4773 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4773 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Esx

• CVE-2013-1405 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-1516 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.9
• CVE-2013-3658 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.4
• CVE-2012-3288 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2008-4281 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.3

All Vmware Esx vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-r35p-8r7c-fmpg.