VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x through 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly configure the virtual floppy device, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:34:25.469Z

Reserved: 2012-05-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-2449

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-05-04T16:55:01.543

Modified: 2017-12-14T02:29:03.653

Link: CVE-2012-2449

cve-icon Redhat

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