PT-2009-1256 · Vmware · Vmware Esxi

Published 2009-02-03 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-4914

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware ESXi versions prior to ESXe350-200901401-I-SG VMware ESX versions prior to ESX350-200901401-SG

Description The issue allows local administrators to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host crash. This can be achieved by creating a snapshot with a malformed VMDK delta disk.

Recommendations For VMware ESXi versions prior to ESXe350-200901401-I-SG, update to ESXe350-200901401-I-SG or later to resolve the issue. For VMware ESX versions prior to ESX350-200901401-SG, update to ESX350-200901401-SG or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4914

Affected Products

Vmware Esxi

References · 8

• http://secunia.com/advisories/33776 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/33549 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4914 · Security Note
• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4914 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021654 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0301 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5909 · Note