The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 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 function pointers.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-05-04T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:01:02.411Z

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

Link: CVE-2012-1517

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-05-04T16:55:01.450

Modified: 2017-12-13T02:29:05.060

Link: CVE-2012-1517

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