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.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201209-25 (VMware Player, Server, Workstation: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VMware Player, Server,       and Workstation. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for       details.
  Impact :

    Local users may be able to gain escalated privileges, cause a Denial of       Service, or gain sensitive information.
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,       possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code, or a Denial       of Service. Remote attackers also may be able to spoof DNS traffic, read       arbitrary files, or inject arbitrary web script to the VMware Server       Console.
    Furthermore, guest OS users may be able to execute arbitrary code on the       host OS, gain escalated privileges on the guest OS, or cause a Denial of       Service (crash the host OS).
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

a. Critical Memory corruption vulnerability

   A memory corruption condition may occur in the virtual machine    hardware. A malicious request sent from the guest operating    system to the virtual hardware may cause the virtual hardware to    write to uncontrolled physical memory.

   VMware would like to thank Andrew Honig of the Department of    Defense for reporting this issue.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2008-4917 to this issue.

b. Updated Service Console package bzip2

   bzip2 versions before 1.0.5 can crash if certain flaws in compressed    data lead to reading beyond the end of a buffer.  This might cause    an application linked to the libbz2 library to crash when    decompressing malformed archives.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2008-1372 to this issue.

A VMware product installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - A CPU hardware emulation flaw in certain VMware     products could allow a virtual CPU to incorrectly     handle a Trap flag.  Successful exploitation of this     issue could lead to privilege escalation on the guest     operating system.  An attacker would need an account on     the guest operating system and the ability to run     applications to exploit this issue. (CVE-2008-4915)

  - By sending a malicious request from the guest operating     system to the virtual hardware, it may be possible to     cause the virtual hardware to write to an uncontrolled     section in the physical memory. (CVE-2008-4917)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
62383	GLSA-201209-25 : VMware Player, Server, Workstation: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
40386	VMSA-2008-0019 : VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2	Nessus	VMware ESX Local Security Checks	high
34818	VMware Products Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2008-0018/VMSA-2008-0019)	Nessus	Windows	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2008-4917

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

high

medium