CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-2450

Published: May 04, 2012 | Modified: Dec 14, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
9 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly register SCSI devices, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Workstation Vmware 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.1 (including) 8.0.1 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.2 (including) 8.0.2 (including)

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