CVE-2008-3892

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

03/09/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control in the COM API in VMware Workstation 5.5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000, VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488, VMware Player 1.x before 1.0.8 build 108000, VMware Player 2.x before 2.0.5 build 109488, VMware ACE 1.x before 1.0.7 build 108880, VMware ACE 2.x before 2.0.5 build 109488, and VMware Server before 1.0.7 build 108231 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a call to the GuestInfo method in which there is a long string argument, and an assignment of a long string value to the result of this call. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2008-3691, CVE-2008-3692, CVE-2008-3693, CVE-2008-3694, CVE-2008-3695, or CVE-2008-3696.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace::::::::	1.0 (including)	1.0.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	1.0.0 (including)	1.0.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:server::::::::		1.0.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.5.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.5 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2008-3892

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools