CVE-2008-4916 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2008-4916

Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware...

Vulnerability Description

Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware Workstation before 5.5.9 build 126128, and 6.5.1 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player before 1.0.9 build 126128, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware ACE before 1.0.8 build 125922, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.8 build 126538 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.1; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unknown vectors.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

vmware player, vmware ace, vmware esx, vmware esxi, vmware server, vmware workstation
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.5, 2.5, 2.5.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.6, 1.0.9, 1.01, 1.05, 2.0, 2.0.4, 4.5.3, 5.0, 5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.6, 5.5.7, 5.5.8, 6.0, 6.0.0.45731, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.03, 6.5, 6.5.1

Timeline

Official Publish: April 6th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.