cve-2012-1517
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-05-04 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:01
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving function pointers.
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