CVE Vulnerability

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.

7.2 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

Scope

References
Link Resource
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32965 Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2008-12-09 12:30

Updated : 2018-11-02 01:44

NVD link : CVE-2008-4917

Mitre link : CVE-2008-4917

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-399