CVE-2013-1406 Information

Description

The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) implementation in vmci.sys in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and 9.x before 9.0.1 on Windows VMware Fusion 4.1 before 4.1.4 and 5.0 before 5.0.2 VMware View 4.x before 4.6.2 and 5.x before 5.1.2 on Windows VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1 and VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1 does not properly restrict memory allocation by control code which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Reference

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0002.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A17164