Security Advisory

CVE-2012-1517

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-05-04 16:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 19:01:02

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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