CVE-2012-2450
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-05-04 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:34
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/81695
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/49032
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027019
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75377
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16852
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/81695
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/49032
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027019
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75377
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16852
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