PT-2008-2930 · Vmware · Vmware Player+2

Andrew Honig · Published 2008-03-20 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-1340

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware Workstation versions 6.0.0 through 6.0.2 VMware Player versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.2 VMware ACE versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.0

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host OS crash, via crafted VMCI calls that trigger memory exhaustion and memory corruption.

Recommendations For VMware Workstation versions 6.0.0 through 6.0.2, update to version 6.0.3 or later. For VMware Player versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.2, update to version 2.0.3 or later. For VMware ACE versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.0, update to version 2.0.1 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1340

Affected Products

Vmware Ace

Vmware Player

Vmware Workstation

References · 15

• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html · Patch
• http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/28276 · Patch
• http://vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html · Patch
• http://vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html · Patch
• http://vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1340 · Security Note
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/28289 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41250 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1340 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1019624 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references · Note