CVE-2013-1661 (GCVE-0-2013-1661)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-09-04 01:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:08
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Summary
VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and ESX 4.0 and 4.1, does not properly implement the Network File Copy (NFC) protocol, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and application crash) by modifying the client-server data stream.
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CWE
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