CVE-2008-4917

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and 2.0.5 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.0.9 and earlier; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2 through 3.5 allows guest OS users to have an unknown impact by sending the virtual hardware a request that triggers an arbitrary physical-memory write operation, leading to memory corruption.

• CWE-399

• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32965Third Party Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xmlThird Party Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246Third Party Advisory
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32965Third Party Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xmlThird Party Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246Third Party Advisory

Published

Dec 9, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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