** DISPUTED ** 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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3547
• 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