Vulnerability in EMC VMware Player
CVE-2008-4916
Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware Workstation before 5.5.9 build 126128, and 6.5.1 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player before 1.0.9 build 126128, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware ACE before 1.0.8 build 125922, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.8 build 126538 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.1; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unknown vectors.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (25.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 25.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- EMC VMware Player
- VMware Ace — versions 1.0, 1.0.2, 1.0.3
- VMware Esx — versions 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.5
- VMware Esxi — versions 3.5
- VMware Player — versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- VMware Server — versions 1.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1
- VMware Workstation — versions 4.5.3, 5.0, 5.5.0
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml (vendor-advisory)
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Apr/0036.html (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/34373 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0944 (vdb-entry)
- lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000054.html (mailing-list)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0005.html
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6439 (signature, vdb-entry)