CVE-2012-1517
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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 9.0 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2012-05-04
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Affected products
References
- http://osvdb.org/81692
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027018
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75374
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17231
