gsd-2008-4917
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:23
Details
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.
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Aliases
CVE-2008-4917


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      "lastModifiedDate": "2018-11-02T13:44Z",
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