CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1516

9.9 CRITICAL Published 2012-05-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-05-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The VMX process in VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1 and ESX 3.5 through 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving data pointers.

Affected configurations

• vmware esx 3.5 • vmware esx 4.0 • vmware esx 4.1 • vmware esxi 3.5 • vmware esxi 4.0 • vmware esxi 4.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References