CVE-2007-4497 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-4497?

CVE-2007-4497 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 21 Sep 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in EMC VMware Workstation before 5.5.5 Build 56455 and 6.x before 6.0.1 Build 55017, Player before 1.0.5 Build 56455 and Player 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, ACE before 1.0.3 Build 54075 and ACE 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, and Server before 1.0.4 Build 56528 allows users with login access to a guest operating system to cause a denial of service (guest outage and host process crash or hang) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4497?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Vmware Ace, Vmware Player, Vmware Server, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2007-4497?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-4497 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-2007-4497 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4497 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-5xfc-jpjx-f864.