CVE-2006-3547: VMware Player

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• VMware Player: any version

Published 2006-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.