National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1244

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in the virtual machine display function in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier; VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.9 build 156507 and 2.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.4 build 159196; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4916.

Impact

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: BID

Name: 34471

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34471

External Source: MLIST

Name: [security-announce] 20090410 VMSA-2009-0006 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security vulnerability

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000055.html

External Source: XF

Name: vmware-virtualmachine-code-execution(49834)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/49834

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-2009-0006.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0006.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022031

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022031

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090410 VMSA-2009-0006 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502615/100/0/threaded

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:6065

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6065

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 53634

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/53634

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6065

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6065