CVE-2008-4917

published 2008-12-09

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…

Priority P4 31 high 7.2 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C C I C A C

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.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	esx	3.0.2 – 3.5	—
vmware	esxi	—	—
vmware	player	1.0.0 – 1.0.8	—
vmware	player	2.0 – 2.0.5	—
vmware	server	1.0 – 1.0.9	—
vmware	workstation	5.5 – 5.5.8	—
vmware	workstation	6.0 – 6.0.5	—

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