CVE-2012-1517

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Vmware
Status
Esxi
Esx
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 May 2012

Summary

The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving function pointers.

References

http://osvdb.org/81692
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009....
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027018
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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