National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4917

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32965

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32965

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980

External Source: BID

Name: 32597

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081203 Re: VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/498886/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081203 VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021301

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021300

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-201209-25

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

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6246

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6246

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986

Hyperlink:http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6246

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6246