Rule

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Sid
20058

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in ace.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. Complete admin access.

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Detailed Information:
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\xFF sequence in the USER and PASS commands, related to a "format string DoS" issue. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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Affected Systems:
vmware ace 2.5.0
vmware ace 2.5.1
vmware ace 2.5.2
vmware ace 2.5.3
vmware ace 2.5.4
vmware ace 2.6
vmware ace 2.6.1

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Attack Scenarios:
An attacker can host a web site that will return code of their choosing to the object when a victim clicks on a malicious link.

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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2009-3707:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-3707
  
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