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CVE-2007-4591

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

vstor-ws60.sys in VMWare Workstation 6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (host operating system crash) and possibly gain privileges by sending a small file buffer size value to the FsSetVolumeInformation IOCTL handler with an FsSetFileInformation subcode.

Affected products

• VMware Workstation: 6.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=118805138626360&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26606
• http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/2007/08/security-vmware-workstation-6.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25441
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018609
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2992
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36277
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=118805138626360&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26606
• http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/2007/08/security-vmware-workstation-6.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25441
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018609

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