Security Advisory

CVE-2012-2449

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-05-04 16:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 19:34:25

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x through 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly configure the virtual floppy device, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

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