CVE-2007-4593 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash the host operating system via the VMware Workstation driver, requiring a software upgrade to mitigate.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-4593?
CVE-2007-4593 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 29 Aug 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in vstor2-ws60.sys in VMWare Workstation 6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (host operating system crash) via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by the DC2 test suite, possibly a related issue to CVE-2007-4591. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4593?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Vmware Workstation.
How do I fix CVE-2007-4593?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-4593 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-2007-4593 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4593 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Workstation
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6vxr-3m6r-hc4v.