Memory Corruption Vulnerability in VMware Products
CVE-2008-4917

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Vmware
Status
Esxi
Workstation
Player
Server
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 December 2008

What is CVE-2008-4917?

An unspecified vulnerability in various versions of VMware Workstation, Player, Server, and ESXi allows guest OS users to send requests to the virtual hardware that can trigger arbitrary physical-memory write operations. This leads to potential memory corruption, which could compromise the integrity of the system and disrupt the operation of affected virtual machines.

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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