CVE-2008-4917 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986 http://secunia.com/advisories/32965 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6246