Vulnerability in VMware Esx
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.
EPSS: 0.005 (37.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Vmware Esx
- Vmware Esxi — versions 3.5
- Vmware Player
- Vmware Server
- Vmware Workstation
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)