CVE-2006-6410: VMware Workstation

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Workstation: version 5.5.1 only

Published 2006-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.