high7.2
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…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Vmware | Esx | from 3.0.2 through 3.5 |
| Vmware | Esxi | Version 3.5 |
| Vmware | Player | from 1.0.0 through 1.0.8 from 2.0 through 2.0.5 |
| Vmware | Server | from 1.0 through 1.0.9 |
| Vmware | Workstation | from 5.5 through 5.5.8 from 6.0 through 6.0.5 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- 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
- 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