PT-2012-4053 · Vmware · Vmware Player+3

Published 2012-05-04 · Updated 2017-12-14 · CVE-2012-2450

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.0

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware Workstation versions 8.0.0 through 8.0.2 VMware Player versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.2 VMware Fusion versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.1 VMware ESXi versions 3.5 through 5.0 VMware ESX versions 3.5 through 4.1

Description The issue allows guest OS users with administrative privileges to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging improper registration of SCSI devices. This can result in an invalid write operation and a crash of the VMX process.

Recommendations For VMware Workstation versions 8.0.0 through 8.0.2, update to version 8.0.3 or later. For VMware Player versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.2, update to version 4.0.3 or later. For VMware Fusion versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.1, update to version 4.1.2 or later. For VMware ESXi versions 3.5 through 5.0, update to a version later than 5.0. For VMware ESX versions 3.5 through 4.1, update to a version later than 4.1.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2450

Affected Products

Vmware Esxi

Vmware Fusion

Vmware Player

Vmware Workstation

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2450 · Security Note
• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2450 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/53369 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/81695 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49032 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75377 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16852 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1027019 · Note