Fatal Error Win8, vmware-view-usbd supplied a NULL target name for the pszTargetName parameter when calling the InitializeSecurityContext API

[OzBob]

Virtual Box 4.3.12r93733 with Guest Additions installed on a win8 64bit machine running a Intel core2duo chip.

The message in the Event Log is:

The program vmware-view-usbd.exe, with the assigned Process ID 2124, supplied a NULL or empty target name for the pszTargetName parameter when calling the InitializeSecurityContext API to initiate an outbound NTLM security context. This is a security risk when mutual authentication is required.

To help protect against a malicious attack, make your code more secure. To do this, change the program so that it specifies a target name in the pszTargetName parameter field, and then recompile the code.

The Event log details are:

• <Event xmlns="​http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
• <System> <Provider Name="LsaSrv" Guid="{199fe037-2b82-40a9-82ac-e1d46c792b99}" EventSourceName="LsaSrv" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">6036</EventID> <Version>0</Version> <Level>3</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-06-07T23:34:08.000000000Z" /> <EventRecordID>33891</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" /> <Channel>System</Channel> <Computer>na</Computer> <Security /> </System>
• <EventData> <Data>2124</Data> <Data>vmware-view-usbd.exe</Data> </EventData> </Event>

There was also a portable harddrive attached at the time of the error, the Event log also recorded that " \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block."

[OzBob]

VirtualBox SVC log with error

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Scratching my head. VBoxSVC.log does contain a few error messages, but none are alarming and additionally none are even remotely related to the originally reported issue.

The original issue is apparently a bug in some component of the VMware tools, and that's part of a product by a totally different company. Ask VMware to get this issue fixed, this is way outside our control.