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CVE-2009-2628

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-94 Code Injection
Publication date:
08/09/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The VMnc media codec in vmnc.dll in VMware Movie Decoder before 6.5.3 build 185404, VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.3 build 185404, VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.3 build 185404, and VMware ACE 2.5.x before 2.5.3 build 185404 on Windows does not properly handle certain small heights in video content, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted AVI file that triggers heap memory corruption.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:movie_decoder:6.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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