CVE-2008-4917

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and 2.0.5 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.0.9 and earlier; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2 through 3.5 allows guest OS users to have an unknown impact by sending the virtual hardware a request that triggers an arbitrary physical-memory write operation, leading to memory corruption.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.2 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-12-09

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Esx (Vmware)
• Esxi (Vmware)
• Player (Vmware)
• Server (Vmware)
• Workstation (Vmware)

References

• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32965
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246