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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

VendorProductAffected versions
VmwareEsx
from 3.0.2 through 3.5
VmwareEsxi
Version 3.5
VmwarePlayer
from 1.0.0 through 1.0.8
from 2.0 through 2.0.5
VmwareServer
from 1.0 through 1.0.9
VmwareWorkstation
from 5.5 through 5.5.8
from 6.0 through 6.0.5

Weakness classification

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