CVSS2
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
60.1%
The version of VMware Fusion 5.x installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 5.0.1. It is, therefore, reportedly affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to an issue with handling invalid ports that could allow a guest user to crash the VMX process.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(72036);
script_version("1.5");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/26");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-1208");
script_bugtraq_id(64994);
script_xref(name:"VMSA", value:"2014-0001");
script_name(english:"VMware Fusion 5.x < 5.0.1 VMX Process DoS (VMSA-2014-0001)");
script_summary(english:"Checks version of VMware Fusion");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host has a virtualization application that is affected by a
denial of service vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of VMware Fusion 5.x installed on the remote Mac OS X host
is prior to 5.0.1. It is, therefore, reportedly affected by a denial of
service vulnerability due to an issue with handling invalid ports that
could allow a guest user to crash the VMX process.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to VMware Fusion 5.0.1 or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2014-1208");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/01/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/08/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/01/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:vmware:fusion");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"MacOS X Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("macosx_fusion_detect.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "MacOSX/Fusion/Version");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
get_kb_item_or_exit("Host/local_checks_enabled");
os = get_kb_item("Host/MacOSX/Version");
if (!os) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mac OS X");
version = get_kb_item_or_exit("MacOSX/Fusion/Version");
path = get_kb_item_or_exit("MacOSX/Fusion/Path");
fixed_version = '5.0.1';
if (
version =~ "^5\." &&
ver_compare(ver:version, fix:fixed_version, strict:FALSE) == -1
)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0)
{
report =
'\n Path : ' + path +
'\n Installed version : ' + version +
'\n Fixed version : ' + fixed_version + '\n';
security_note(port:0, extra:report);
}
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_INST_PATH_NOT_VULN, "VMware Fusion", version, path);