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CVE-2012-1516

Published: May 4, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The VMX process in VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1 and ESX 3.5 through 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 data pointers.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16810
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
1027018
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
53369
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x_refsource_BID

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