>> VMware Products Memory Corruption and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Title : VMware Products Memory Corruption and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-3333 CVE ID : CVE-2008-1372 - CVE-2008-4917
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-12-03
Technical Description
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in various VMware products, which could be exploited by attackers to gain elevated privileges or cause a denial of service.
The first issue is caused by a memory corruption error in the virtual machine hardware when processing malicious requests sent from the guest operating , which may cause the virtual hardware to write to uncontrolled physical memory.
The second vulnerability is caused by an error in bzip2. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0915
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