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CVE-2008-4917

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-12-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and 2.0.5 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.0.9 and earlier; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2 through 3.5 allows guest OS users to have an unknown impact by sending the virtual hardware a request that triggers an arbitrary physical-memory write operation, leading to memory corruption.

Affected products

• VMware ESX: from 3.0.2 through 3.5
• VMware ESXi: 3.5
• VMware Player: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.8; from 2.0 through 2.0.5
• VMware Server: from 1.0 through 1.0.9
• VMware Workstation: from 5.5 through 5.5.8; from 6.0 through 6.0.5

References

• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32965
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986

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