CVE-2007-1337 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-1337?

CVE-2007-1337 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 2 May 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network.

Official description

The virtual machine process (VMX) in VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 does not properly read state information when moving from the ACPI sleep state to the run state, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (virtual machine reboot) via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-1337?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2007-1337?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-1337 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-2007-1337 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-1337 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g53g-p3h8-f368.