cve-2012-1515
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-04-02 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:01
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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