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

Summary

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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