Detections
Analytics
CVE-2008-4916
medium
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware Workstation before 5.5.9 build 126128, and 6.5.1 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player before 1.0.9 build 126128, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware ACE before 1.0.8 build 125922, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.8 build 126538 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.1; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unknown vectors.
References
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6439
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0944
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0005.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021973
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34373
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Apr/0036.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000054.html