Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6410 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in VMWare Workstation 5.5.1
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Buffer overflow in an ActiveX control in VMWare 5.5.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long VmdbDb parameter to the Initialize function.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | VMware 5.5.1 (ActiveX) Local Buffer Overflow Exploit. CVE-2006-6410. Local exploit for windows platform |
| file | exploits/windows/local/2264.html |
| id | EDB-ID:2264 |
| last seen | 2016-01-31 |
| modified | 2006-08-27 |
| platform | windows |
| port | |
| published | 2006-08-27 |
| reporter | c0ntex |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/2264/ |
| title | VMware 5.5.1 ActiveX Local Buffer Overflow Exploit |
| type | local |