CVE-2012-3289

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.4, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.4, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via crafted traffic from a remote virtual device.

Affected products

VMware ESX: 3.5, 3.5-update1, 3.5-update2, 3.5-update3, 4.0, 4.1
VMware ESXi: 3.5, 3.5-1, 4.0, 4.0-1, 4.0-2, 4.0-3 (+5)
VMware Player: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3
VMware Workstation: 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3

References

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0011.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0011.html

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