fkie_cve-2012-1516
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2012-05-04 16:55
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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