Tracker / CVE-2012-1516
CVE-2012-1516
Critical 9.9
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.
Affected products and versions
| vmware | esx |
|---|---|
| vmware | esxi |
Analysis
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