CVE-2008-4279
Published Oct 6, 2008
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.1
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-264
Configurations
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