CVE-2008-4279

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

06/10/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

The CPU hardware emulation for 64-bit guest operating systems in VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488 and 5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000; Player 2.0.x before 2.0.5 build 109488 and 1.x before 1.0.8; Server 1.x before 1.0.7 build 108231; and ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5 allows authenticated guest OS users to gain additional guest OS privileges by triggering an exception that causes the virtual CPU to perform an indirect jump to a non-canonical address.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.80

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	1.0 (including)	1.0.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:server::::::::	1.0 (including)	1.0.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.5.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx::::::::	2.5.4 (including)	3.5 (including)

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CVE-2008-4279

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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