35508 : VMware Workstation VMX State Transition Local DoS
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May 01, 2007

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 (Description Provided by CVE) : The virtual machine process (VMX) in VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 does not properly read state information when moving from the ACPI sleep state to the run state, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (virtual machine reboot) via unknown vectors.

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 Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability

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