Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in VMware ESXi and View Products
CVE-2012-1508

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Vmware
Status
Esxi
Esx
View
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 March 2012

What is CVE-2012-1508?

The XPDM display driver in various versions of VMware ESXi and ESX enables guest OS users to exploit specific vectors, resulting in unauthorized privileges within the guest operating system or potentially leading to a denial of service scenario due to NULL pointer dereference.

References

http://osvdb.org/80115
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026814
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0004....
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2012-1508 : Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in VMware ESXi and View Products