CVE-2012-2449 Information

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3 VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3 VMware Fusion 4.x through 4.1.2 VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0 and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly configure the virtual floppy device which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/81694 http://secunia.com/advisories/49032 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027019 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75376 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A16863