CVE-2008-4917

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

09/12/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and 2.0.5 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.0.9 and earlier; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2 through 3.5 allows guest OS users to have an unknown impact by sending the virtual hardware a request that triggers an arbitrary physical-memory write operation, leading to memory corruption.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx::::::::	3.0.2 (including)	3.5 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:3.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	1.0.0 (including)	1.0.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.5 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:server::::::::	1.0 (including)	1.0.9 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.5.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.5 (including)

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CVE-2008-4917

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools