CVE-2008-1340 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1340
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Description: Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) in VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3, and VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via crafted VMCI calls that trigger "memory exhaustion and memory corruption."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41250 ST 1019624 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755 MLIST http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded BID 28276

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