CVE-2008-1340

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) in VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3, and VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via crafted VMCI calls that trigger "memory exhaustion and memory corruption."

Affected products

VMware Ace: 1.0, 2.0
VMware Player: 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 2.0, 2.0.1 (+1)
VMware Server: 1.0.3
Vmware Server: 1.0.2, 1.0.4
Vmware Workstation: 5.5.5, 6.0.1, 6.0.2
VMware Workstation: 5.5, 5.5.3_build_34685, 5.5.3_build_42958, 5.5.4, 5.5.4_build_44386, 6.0

References

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019624
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28289
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references

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