# CVE-2008-4917: Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2008-12-09 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and 2.0.5 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.0.9 and earlier; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2 through 3.5 allows guest OS users to have an unknown impact by sending the virtual hardware a request that triggers an arbitrary physical-memory write operation, leading to memory corruption.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threaded
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32965
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threaded
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597

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