CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4917
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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 configurations
• vmware esx (>= 3.0.2 <= 3.5)
• vmware esxi 3.5
• vmware player (>= 1.0.0 <= 1.0.8)
• vmware player (>= 2.0 <= 2.0.5)
• vmware server (>= 1.0 <= 1.0.9)
• vmware workstation (>= 5.5 <= 5.5.8)
• vmware workstation (>= 6.0 <= 6.0.5)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32965 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246 Third Party Advisory
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32965 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246 Third Party Advisory