Description
The virtual machine process (VMX) in VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 does not properly read state information when moving from the ACPI sleep state to the run state, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (virtual machine reboot) via unknown vectors.
References
- vmware-acpi-unspecified(33990) vdb-entry
- 23732 vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-1592 vdb-entry
- 35508 vdb-entry
- 20070518 VMSA-2007-0004.1 Updated: Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed and directory traversal vulnerability mailing-list
- 25079 third-party-advisory
- 1018011 vdb-entry
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#554
- 20070507 VMSA-2007-0004 Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed mailing-list