CVE-2008-4279
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 6, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 26, 2008
Description
The CPU hardware emulation for 64-bit guest operating systems in VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488 and 5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000; Player 2.0.x before 2.0.5 build 109488 and 1.x before 1.0.8; Server 1.x before 1.0.7 build 108231; and ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5 allows authenticated guest OS users to gain additional guest OS privileges by triggering an exception that causes the virtual CPU to perform an indirect jump to a non-canonical address.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 andmailing-list
- 32157third-party-advisory
- 20081004 VMware Emulation Flaw x64 Guest Privilege Escalation (1/2)mailing-list
- 32179third-party-advisory
- ADV-2008-2740vdb-entry
- 32180third-party-advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html
- vmware-esxesxi-jump-privilege-escalation(45668)vdb-entry
- 31569vdb-entry
- 1020991vdb-entry
- 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issuesmailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5929vdb-entrysignature
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