CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-2449

9.0 HIGH 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 2.0 ([email protected])
9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x through 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly configure the virtual floppy device, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation 8.0 • vmware workstation 8.0.1 • vmware workstation 8.0.2 • vmware player 4.0 • vmware player 4.0.1 • vmware player 4.0.2 • vmware fusion 4.0 • vmware fusion 4.0.1 • vmware fusion 4.0.2 • vmware fusion 4.1 • vmware fusion 4.1.1 • vmware fusion 4.1.2 • vmware esxi 3.5 • vmware esxi 4.0 • vmware esxi 4.1 • vmware esxi 5.0 • vmware esx 3.5 • vmware esx 4.0 • vmware esx 4.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References