- Description
- The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving function pointers.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-119
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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