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CVE-2006-3547

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-07-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

EMC VMware Player allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (unrecoverable application failure) via a long value of the ide1:0.fileName parameter in the .vmx file of a virtual machine. NOTE: third parties have disputed this issue, saying that write access to the .vmx file enables other ways of stopping the virtual machine, so no privilege boundaries are crossed

Affected products

• VMware Player: all versions

References

• http://www.osvdb.org/27524
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437756/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437806/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437809/100/200/threaded
• http://www.osvdb.org/27524
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437756/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437806/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437809/100/200/threaded

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