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CVE-2008-2100

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-06-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in VIX API 1.1.x before 1.1.4 build 93057 on VMware Workstation 5.x and 6.x, VMware Player 1.x and 2.x, VMware ACE 2.x, VMware Server 1.x, VMware Fusion 1.x, VMware ESXi 3.5, and VMware ESX 3.0.1 through 3.5 allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware Ace: from 1.0 through 1.0.5; from 2.0 through 2.0.3
• VMware ESX: 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.5
• VMware Esx Server: 3.0, 3.5
• VMware ESXi: 3.5
• VMware Fusion: through 1.1.1
• VMware Player: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.6; from 2.0 through 2.0.3
• VMware Server: through 1.0.5
• VMware Workstation: from 5.5 through 5.5.6; from 6.0 through 6.0.3

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/30556
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3922
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020200
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29552
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42872
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5081
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5647
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30556

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