CVE-2012-2450
First published: Fri May 04 2012(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | =3.5-1 | |
| VMware ESXi | =4.0 | |
| VMware ESXi | =4.0-1 | |
| VMware ESXi | =4.0-2 | |
| VMware ESXi | =4.0-3 | |
| VMware ESXi | =4.0-4 | |
| VMware ESXi | =4.1 | |
| VMware ESXi | =4.1-1 | |
| VMware ESXi | =4.1-2 | |
| VMware ESXi | =5.0 | |
| VMware ESX | =3.5 | |
| VMware ESX | =3.5-update1 | |
| VMware ESX | =3.5-update2 | |
| VMware ESX | =3.5-update3 | |
| VMware ESX | =4.0 | |
| VMware ESX | =4.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://osvdb.org/81695
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49032
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027019
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75377
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16852
- agent/severity
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/event
- agent/references
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- agent/author
- agent/description
- agent/type
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/vmware
- canonical/vmware workstation
- version/vmware workstation/8.0
- version/vmware workstation/8.0.1
- version/vmware workstation/8.0.2
- canonical/vmware player
- version/vmware player/4.0
- version/vmware player/4.0.1
- version/vmware player/4.0.2
- canonical/vmware fusion
- version/vmware fusion/4.0
- version/vmware fusion/4.0.1
- version/vmware fusion/4.0.2
- version/vmware fusion/4.1
- version/vmware fusion/4.1.1
- canonical/vmware esxi
- version/vmware esxi/3.5
- version/vmware esxi/3.5-1
- version/vmware esxi/4.0
- version/vmware esxi/4.0-1
- version/vmware esxi/4.0-2
- version/vmware esxi/4.0-3
- version/vmware esxi/4.0-4
- version/vmware esxi/4.1
- version/vmware esxi/4.1-1
- version/vmware esxi/4.1-2
- version/vmware esxi/5.0
- canonical/vmware esx
- version/vmware esx/3.5
- version/vmware esx/3.5-update1
- version/vmware esx/3.5-update2
- version/vmware esx/3.5-update3
- version/vmware esx/4.0
- version/vmware esx/4.1