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CVE-2012-1517

CVE-2012-1517

EPSS 2.5%
The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving function pointers.
Affected products
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References
http://osvdb.org/81692https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75374https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17231http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027018http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html