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CVE-2008-4916

Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware Workstation before 5.5.9 build 126128, and 6.5.1 an

Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware Workstation before 5.5.9 build 126128, and 6.5.1 and earlier 6.x versions.

VMware Player before 1.0.9 build 126128, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions.

VMware ACE before 1.0.8 build 125922, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions.

VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.8 build 126538 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745.

VMware Fusion before 2.0.1.

VMware ESXi 3.5.

and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unknown vectors.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6 EPSS 0.00038
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Affected Products & Versions

7
emc vmware playerall versions
vmware aceall versions
vmware esxall versions
vmware esxiall versions
vmware playerall versions
vmware serverall versions
vmware workstationall versions

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4.6
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published to NVD06 Apr 2009 · 03:30 PM
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