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CVE-2007-0062

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-09-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Integer overflow in the ISC dhcpd 3.0.x before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1; and the DHCP server in EMC VMware Workstation before 5.5.5 Build 56455 and 6.x before 6.0.1 Build 55017, Player before 1.0.5 Build 56455 and Player 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, ACE before 1.0.3 Build 54075 and ACE 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, and Server before 1.0.4 Build 56528; allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code via a malformed DHCP packet with a large dhcp-max-message-size that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow, related to servers configured to send many DHCP options to clients.

Affected products

• VMware Ace: 1.0.3, 2.0
• VMware Player: 1.0.4, 2.0
• VMware Server: 1.0.3
• Vmware Workstation: 6.0.1
• VMware Workstation: 3.4, 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.5.2, 5.5.0_build_13124 (+7)

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227135
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26890
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27694
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27706
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31396
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34263
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-05.xml
• http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0041
• http://www.iss.net/threats/275.html

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