FKIE_CVE-2012-1515
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-04-02 10:46 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:39
Severity
Summary
VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 do not properly implement port-based I/O operations, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by overwriting memory locations in a read-only memory block associated with the Virtual DOS Machine.
References
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