CVE-2009-0199

Ace vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

5.0%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a video file with crafted dimensions (aka framebuffer parameters).

Affected vendor

Vmware

Affected product

Ace

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2009-09-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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