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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 13, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2006-3547

CVE-2006-3547

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

2
  • VMware/Player2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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