National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1515

Overview

VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 do not properly implement port-based I/O operations, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by overwriting memory locations in a read-only memory block associated with the Virtual DOS Machine.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA12-164A

Name: TA12-164A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html

External Source: XF

Name: vmware-esxserver-io-privilege-escalation(74480)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74480

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0006.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0006.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS12-042

Hyperlink:http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS12-042

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15209

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15209