CVE-2008-4279 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4279
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Description: The CPU hardware emulation for 64-bit guest operating systems in VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488 and 5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000; Player 2.0.x before 2.0.5 build 109488 and 1.x before 1.0.8; Server 1.x before 1.0.7 build 108231; and ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5 allows authenticated guest OS users to gain additional guest OS privileges by triggering an exception that causes the virtual CPU to perform an indirect jump to a non-canonical address.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45668 ST 1020991 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32180 Secunia Advisory: SA32157 Secunia Advisory: SA32179 OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5929 FULLDISC http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-October/064860.html CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/497041/100/0/threaded http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2 BID 31569

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