CVE-2009-1805 Denial of service in n/a
Guest OS users can cause a denial of service in VMware products when the Descheduled Time Accounting Service is not running.
- 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-2009-1805?
CVE-2009-1805 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Esx, published on 1 Jun 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the VMware Descheduled Time Accounting driver in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier, VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier, VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier, VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.9 build 156507 and 2.x before 2.0.1 build 156745, VMware Fusion 2.x before 2.0.2 build 147997, VMware ESXi 3.5, and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5, when the Descheduled Time Accounting Service is not running, allows guest OS users on Windows to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1805?
It affects 7 products.
Products include Vmware Ace, Vmware Esx, Vmware Esxi, Vmware Fusion, Vmware Player, Vmware Server and 1 more.
How do I fix CVE-2009-1805?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-1805 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-2009-1805 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-1805 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Esx
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h97j-4wj2-5jv8.