CVE-2008-1340 Information

Description

Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) in VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3 VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3 and VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via crafted VMCI calls that trigger \memory exhaustion and memory corruption.\

Reference

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755 http://securitytracker.com/id?1019624 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28289 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41250