CVE-2012-1508

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

The XPDM display driver in VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0; VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1; and VMware View before 4.6.1 allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

The XPDM display driver in VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0; VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1; and VMware View before 4.6.1 allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

VMWare ESXi

First reported 12 years ago

2012-03-16 20:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-13 02:29:00

Affected Software

VMWare ESXi 4.0

4.0

VMWare ESXi 4.1

4.1

VMWare ESXi 5.0

5.0

References

20120316 VMSA-2012-0004 VMware View privilege escalation and cross-site scripting

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48379

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1026818

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0004.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0005.html

Vendor Advisory

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17183

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