National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4916

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware Workstation before 5.5.9 build 126128, and 6.5.1 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player before 1.0.9 build 126128, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware ACE before 1.0.8 build 125922, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.8 build 126538 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.1; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unknown vectors.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0944

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0944

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0005.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0005.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021973

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021973

External Source: BID

Name: 34373

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34373

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-201209-25

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20090403 VMSA-2009-0005 VMware Hosted products, VI Client and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Apr/0036.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6439

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6439

External Source: MLIST

Name: [security-announce] 20090403 VMSA-2009-0005 VMware Hosted products, VI Client and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000054.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6439

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6439