VMWare ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:19732

Info

VMWare ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 19732
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 18 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 31 2006 09:48PM
Credit: Discovered by c0ntex of www.open-security.org.
Vulnerable: VMWare Workstation 5.5.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

VMWare ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

An ActiveX control distributed with VMware is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability.

An attacker can trigger this issue by supplying large amounts of data to a finite buffer in an ActiveX component of VMware. A successful attack can corrupt memory and facilitate arbitrary code execution in the context of the vulnerable application.

VMware 5.5.1 is vulnerable to this issue; previous versions may be affected as well.

Exploit / POC

VMWare ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Exploit code is available.

Solution / Fix

VMWare ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]:[email protected].

References

VMWare ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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