# CVE-2006-3547: Denial of service in n/a

> An attacker with write access to a VM configuration file can cause an unrecoverable application failure in VMware Player via a long parameter value.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Jul 2006
- **Updated:** 17 Jan 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-24gw-9fv3-3c2w

## What is CVE-2006-3547?

CVE-2006-3547 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Player, published on 13 Jul 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

EMC VMware Player allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (unrecoverable application failure) via a long value of the ide1:0.fileName parameter in the .vmx file of a virtual machine.  NOTE: third parties have disputed this issue, saying that write access to the .vmx file enables other ways of stopping the virtual machine, so no privilege boundaries are crossed

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3547?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Vmware Player.

## How do I fix CVE-2006-3547?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3547 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2006-3547 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3547 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Player

- [CVE-2007-5617](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5617/): Denial of service in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2016-2077](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-2077/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2012-5458](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-5458/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.3)
- [CVE-2012-5459](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-5459/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.9)
- [CVE-2013-5972](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-5972/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2006-3547 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2006-3547 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Player, published on 13 Jul 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3547 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Vmware Player. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3547/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3547/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3547
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3547
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-3547

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3547/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.