Re: Vm ware 0day dos exploit by n00b.

[Paul Szabo <psz () maths usyd edu au>]

co296 () aol com wrote:

> ... in vmware user's .vmx file ... we change ...
> ide1:0.fileName = AAAAA... it will cause a d0s ...

I am confused: cannot you cause such a problem with any invalid filename?
Where is the attack, if you had to have write access to the user's file?
Can you have code execution (shellcode in that name, for VMware on UNIX
where bits of it run as root)?

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia