PT-2008-3616 · Vmware · Vmware Player+2

Published 2008-06-02 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-2099

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware Workstation versions prior to 6.0.4 build 93057 VMware Player versions prior to 2.0.4 build 93057 VMware ACE versions prior to 2.0.2 build 93057

Description The issue allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unspecified vectors, due to an unspecified vulnerability in VMCI.

Recommendations For VMware Workstation versions prior to 6.0.4 build 93057, update to version 6.0.4 build 93057 or later. For VMware Player versions prior to 2.0.4 build 93057, update to version 2.0.4 build 93057 or later. For VMware ACE versions prior to 2.0.2 build 93057, update to version 2.0.2 build 93057 or later.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2099

Affected Products

Vmware Ace

Vmware Player

Vmware Workstation

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2099 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1707 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0008.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30476 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/29443 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/492831/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42757 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020149 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2099 · Note