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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2012-05-04T16:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T19:01:02.720Z
Reserved: 2012-03-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2012-1516
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2012-05-04T16:55:01.420
Modified: 2019-09-27T18:13:22.970
Link: CVE-2012-1516
Redhat
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