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CVE-2012-1517

Disclosure Date: May 04, 2012
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Description

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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General Information

Vendors

  • vmware

Products

  • esx 4.1,
  • esxi 4.1
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