7.2
CWE
399
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2008-4917

First published: Tue Dec 09 2008(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
VMware ESXi=3.5
VMware Workstation>=5.5<=5.5.8
VMware Workstation>=6.0<=6.0.5
VMware Player>=1.0.0<=1.0.8
VMware Player>=2.0<=2.0.5
VMware Server>=1.0<=1.0.9
VMware ESX>=3.0.2<=3.5

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