Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 4, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2007-2491

Description

The PIIX4 power management subsystem in EMC VMware Workstation 5.5.3.34685 and VMware Server 1.0.1.29996 allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations via a crafted poke to I/O port 0x1004, triggering a denial of service (virtual machine crash) or other unspecified impact, a related issue to CVE-2007-1337.

Affected products

VMware/Server
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:server:1.0.1_build_29996:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
VMware/Workstation
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:5.5.3_build_34685:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
EMC Corporation/VMware Workstationllm-create
Range: <=5.5.3.34685
EMC Corporation/Vmware Serverllm-fuzzy
Range: <=1.0.1.29996

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

osvdb.org/40088nvd
taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdfnvd
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1592nvd

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