CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-2450

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

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly register SCSI devices, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid 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 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

References