CVE-2012-1517
HIGH severity · CVSS 9 · Memory corruption
9CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.htmlAdvisory
- http://osvdb.org/81692
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027018
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75374
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17231