VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 do not properly implement port-based I/O operations, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by overwriting memory locations in a read-only memory block associated with the Virtual DOS Machine.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-04-02T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:01:02.772Z

Reserved: 2012-03-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-1515

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-04-02T10:46:44.373

Modified: 2018-10-12T22:02:28.480

Link: CVE-2012-1515

cve-icon Redhat

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