CVE-2009-4811 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the VMware Authentication Daemon via malformed USER and PASS commands, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-4811?
CVE-2009-4811 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Player, published on 27 Apr 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
VMware Authentication Daemon 1.0 in vmware-authd.exe in the VMware Authorization Service in VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600 and 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459, VMware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, VMware ACE 2.6 before 2.6.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, and VMware Server 2.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a \x25\x90 sequence in the USER and PASS commands, a related issue to CVE-2009-3707. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Weakness: CWE-134
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4811?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Vmware Ace, Vmware Player, Vmware Server, Vmware Workstation.
How do I fix CVE-2009-4811?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-4811 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-2009-4811 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-4811 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Player
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8jq2-g365-87pp.