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

CVSS score not scored

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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